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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, MARCH 13, 1942
Washington, D. C.
V. S. MOUNTAIN WARFARE
The army is buying pitons, kara-
biners, ice axes, skis, sleeping bags
and parkas, to be used not in an
expedition to the North pole but in
preparation for warfare on snow-
clad mountain sides.
If you ask what mountain sides
the reply is: “We are preparing for
any emergency.” Army chiefs have
carefully noted what has been
done in Europe in mountain and win-
iter warfare, and they intend that
U. S. troops be trained in the same
tactics.
Today, in the Railroad Retire
ment building (headquarters of the
quartermaster corps) you can find
a group of men known as “the Cold
Climate Clothing and Equipment
unit.” They are ski experts and
mountain climbers, who know by
rigorous experience what is needed
for life in the cold latitudes and
high altitudes.
They are Bestor Robinson of the
National Ski association; Robert H.
Bates, editor of “Five Miles High”;
and William House, a famed climb
er and explorer. Working indoors
ten hours a day, they are preparing
specifications for the best military
skis, the best goggles, boots, and
high-pressure stoves that can be
carried in a knapsack.
Note: Germany’s expert in moun
tain warfare, Paul Bauer, carried
out his last peacetime mountain
climbing exploit in the Nanga Par-
bat expedition in India in 1938—with
the consent and co-operation of the
British government.
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MRS. WOODROW WILSON
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson sewed for
soldiers 25 years ago, and now she’s
doing it again.
Every Wednesday morning, she
meets at the swank Sulgrave Club
for Red Cross sewing with Mrs.
Jesse Jones, and Mrs. D. Bu
chanan Merriman, better known as
the duchess of Windsor’s “Aunt Bes
sie.”
After the sewing, they lunch at the
club, then adjourn to Mrs. Jesse
Jones’ apartment at the Shoreham
hotel, or to Mrs. Wilson’s home on
S street, for bridge.
The lady who, as “the beautiful
widow Galt,” set all the town talk
ing during World War I, still sets
the town talking wherever she ap
pears today. She gives her name
freely to Democratic party and pa
triotic causes, but her most regular
activity is providing floral decora
tions for the Wilson shrine at the
National Cathedral. She has made
a study of floral arrangements, per
sonally supervises the decoration ev
ery few days.
Measured by the code of the cave
dwellers, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is
an active woman, but she stares in
amazement at the activity of the
First Lady of World War II.
* • *
SUGAR SHORTAGE
If there is an investigation of the
sugar shortage, certain agriculture
department masterminds will have
to do a lot of explaining.
Few know that these master
minds, over the protests of domestic
beet - sugar producers, last year
forced a reduction of sugar-beet
acreage of from 17 to 20 per cent;
also that cane which would have
yielded 300,000 tons of sugar was
left to rot in Puerto Rican fields
because processing was prohibited.
Sugar producers on the other
hand, vigorously urged that domes
tic quotas be lifted to permit maxi
mum output. But the agriculture
moguls refused to heed these warn
ings. Led by Secretary Claude
Wickard, they insisted the United
States had ample sugar supplies for
all needs—and they kept on chorus
ing this refrain right up to a few
■weeks ago when Wiclfard, as a guest
speaker on Mrs. Roosevelt’s Sunday
night radio program, completely
changed his tune and broke the
news that sugar would have to be
rationed.
Wickard bases the shortage on
two grounds: (1) heavy demands
from our Allies, particularly Russia,
whose sugar producing region has
been devastated by the Nazis; (2)
greatly reduced imports from the
Philippines and Hawaii.
The Philippines are out, but not
Hawaii. Large munitions shipments
are constantly going to these islands,
and sugar is coming back.
Agriculture department tycoons
are making a big ado about how es
sential their activities are to the war
effort. One essential might be less
bungling in unrestricting farm pro
duction.
Note: Puerto Rico now has on
hand, and waiting to be ground,
more sugar-cane than it is allowed
to process under the production quo
ta set by the agriculture depart
ment.
NAZI RAIL SHORTAGE
The United States government has
difficulty getting accurate reports of
conditions in Germany these days.
But from a neutral listening post
comes the following:
Germany is suffering an acute
shortage of rail equipment. Civil
ians have been instructed not to
travel- anywhere on the railroads,
except on the most urgent business.
Penalties for violation of this rule
are severe.-
About 130,000 freight cars are be
lieved to be in use in Russia or in
th* Russian campaign.
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VIEWPOINT
Our part we must do in a terrible
war—
A victory final we seek;
So forward to rescue the world
(maybe more)—
On forty-four hours a week!
No time’s to be lost in this job that’s
ahead—
Our efforts must rapidly soar;
So let our endeavors be rapidly
spread
On forty-four hours, no morel
The world is on fire; we feel the hot
flames;
Around us we see the walls fall;
So into the blaze and the holocaust,
James! . . .
For forty-four hours, that’s air!
The enemy, ruthless, is at us full tilt,
Our lives and our homes are at
stake;
So into the fight in which no one can
wilt—
Unless the work limit we break!
We never have faced such a terrible
fight—
Defeat is a possible fact;
So over the ramparts with all of our
might—
Observing the Walsh-Healy act!
Like slaves we would live if the
enemy won
And get a few pennies per day,
So into the battle! And no ordeal
shun—
Excepting one affecting our PAY!
A barbarous foe’s winning great
victories—
He stops at no outrage or crime;
So forward to bring the beast down
on his knees—
UNLESS IT INVOLVES OVER
TIME!
• • •
What’s causing all those Florida
train wrecks? The last one was a
head-on collision in broad daylight,
and Elmer Twitchell suspects that,
the racing influence being what it
is down that way, somebody thought
the trip was a jumping event.
• • •
Oh, Boy!
Explanations from Vichy
Sound terribly fishy.
• • •
Question to any prisoner at the
Riom trial, “Do you plead guilty
or do you wish to admit every
thing?”
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“Sir Stafford Qripps, the new min
ister named in the British cabinet
shake-up, was a firm critic of Stan
ley Baldwin’s policies, he regarded
the British action in the Ethiopian
crisis as hypocritical, he held that
the League of Nations had gone back
on its pledges, he opposed the British
sly support of General Franco, he
fought appeasement all the way and
had no use for Neville Chamber-
lain.”—Newspaper item.
That would seem to make him
pretty much a man of the hour
if you ask us.
• • •
Why Congressional Speech Readers
Go Mad
Mr. Snyder: “Mr. Chairman, we
are now engaged in a most stupen
dous and destructive war . . . The
question confronting us today iswhat
we, the democracies, must continue
to do, or must initiate and do, to
eventually win. The University of
Pittsburgh’s football team last fall
started off by losing to small col
leges like Westminster. They lost
every game except the next to the
last one. Fordham had won every
game and was looked upon to be the
outstanding contender for the Rose
Bowl invitation. Fordham went to
Pittsburgh to play their annual
game. Only a few thousand people
turned out because they thought it
would be a pushover at 100 to 1 for
Fordham. But what happened?
Pittsburgh’s football team pulled it
self together and ran over Fordham.
“Mr. Chairman, I mention this
because it is appropriate and ap
plicable to our world situation. What
enabled Pittsburgh to win that day?
Only one thing, spirit and determi
nation.”—Congressional Record.
Now that that’s all cleared up,
let’s go!
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Believe it or not, we know of a
case where a young man who is
about as husky a physical specimen
as we have ever seen, unmarried
and anxious to get into the war,
tried to join the coast guard and
was rejected on the ground his upper
and lower teeth didn’t meet! P.S.—
They took him in the draft.
• • •
Ima Dodo took a lump of sugar
downtown yesterday to have it re
treaded.
• • •
Rhymes for the Button Your Lip
Campaign
He who hears.
But doesn’t tell,
Serves Old Glory
Very well.
• • •
Little bits of gossip,
Little tongues that wag
Help put big successes
In the Axis bag.
* * •
If you’d beat the Japs
Shut your traps!
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With Our Boys ‘Somewhere in Northern Ireland’
Picture at left shows a private in the A.E.F., on sentry duty, somewhere in Northern Ireland. Irish chil
dren—two of them barefooted—watch and admire him. It is a true case of “hero worship.” Right: These sol
diers have just finished mess and are pictured as they clean their tin plates. Judging from their happy faces,
the food “over there” is agreeing with the boys well enough.
Generals Learn How to Keep ’Em Rolling
Brig. Gen. T. E. Marchant (left), and Brig. Gen. J. C. Hutchinson get into overalls at motor transport
school, Hoiabird, Md., where, for the first time in history, high ranking officers are taking a two-weeks’ course
with a view to giving the officers first-hand information on driving convoys in difficult terrain. Right: A master
sergeant shows three brigadier generals the inside of a truck wheel, and how to keep it properly greased
and prepared.
War Bonnet for ‘Big Joe’ Stalin
The head of the Russian Reds has been named honorary chief of the
Red Indians, as outstanding warrior for 1941, although the Indians asso
ciated with the Indian Confederation admit that Gen. Douglas MacArthur
is a sure candidate for honors in 1942. A fine war bonnet, which will go
to Stalin, is being presented to Edward Carter, president of the Russian
war relief, by Chief Falling Trees at the Indian Confederation pow wow
in New York.
Paraski Troops Ready for Action
After a hard training grind, ski troopers of the 503rd parachute bat
talion are now seasoned paraski soldiers. A group of the jumping snow
birds are pictured inside their transport plane en route to their jump-off
place near Alta, Utah. Their skis and other equipment will be dropped
to them by large parachutes after they have leaped.
Rough on Japs
An Igorot warrior of the Philip
pines. Thousands like him are now
fighting with American comrades on
Bataan peninsula. Gen. MacArthur
reports that Igorots rode on top of
U. S. tanks, guiding them through
the jungle in an annihilating attack.
Youngest Captain
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Cant. Robert Knight, 28, youngest
captain in the U. S. marine corps.
He is stationed at the U. S. naval
reserve aviation base at Atlanta,
Ga., as flight instructor.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
End of the Trail
YY^HEN Capt. James H. Cook
’ ’ died recently on his 15,000-acre
Agate Springs ranch in Sioux coun
ty, Neb., the passing of this 84-year-
old Westerner broke one of the
few remaining links between the
present and- that era in American
history epitomized in the phrase
“the Wild West.” For “Captain Jim”
was an authentic frontiersman—a
cowboy who trailed Texas longhorns
north to the roaring cow towns of
Kansas and Nebraska, a guide and
big game hunter, a scout for the
United States army in the last of the
Indian wars and a pioneer ranch
man in the heart of the Indian coun
try in western Nebraska.
A descendant of Captain James
Cook, the famous English explor
er, the future frontiersman was
bom in southern Michigan August
26, 1857 His father was a seafar
ing man but young Cook did not
choose to follow in his sire’s foot
steps. “I think the spirit of the
hunter was in me at birth,” he once
said and, as a boy, he became an
expert marksman with the rifle.
By the time he was 17, the call of
adventure had taken him west—to
Kansas, where he found a job as a
herder near old Fort Harker Then
he went to Texas with some cow
boys who had brought a herd up the
trail from the Lone Star state. In
San Antonio he became acquainted
with the redoubtable “Big Foot”
Wallace who liked the “shorthorn”
CAPT. JAMES H. COOK
From a photograph taken in 1886
kid so much that he gave young
Cook one of the best of his three-
year-old colts. But Cook didn’t re
main a tenderfoot long Within a
year he was working as a cowboy
for the famous Ben Slaughter and
during the nexi four or five years
he became one of the most expert
"brushpoppers’ in the cattle coun
try During this time also he helped
trail many a herd north to the In
dian agencies in Nebraska and the
Dakotas, became acquainted with
the Sioux Indians and laid the foun
dation for a lifelong friendship with
such famous Chiefs as old Red
Cloud, Young Man Afraid of His
Horses, Little Wound and Ameri
can Horse.
At Fort Laramie he met Baptiste
Gamier, famous on the frontier as
“Little Bat,” hunter and army
scout. Under the tutelage of “Little
Bat,” young Cook became a skilled
big game hunter and in 1878 he
made his last trip up the trail as a
cow waddie. At Cheyenne, Wyo., he
fell in with “Wild Horse Charlie”
Alexander, renowned for his skill in
capturing wild mustangs. The two
men became pardners in supplying
game for the markets in Cheyenne
and other towns along the Union
Pacific railroad.
During the next four years Cook
served as a guide for many a hunt
ing party of Easterners and Eng
lishmen in the wilds of Wyoming
and this led directly to his being
employed by one of them—Harold
C. Wilson of Cheltenham, England
—to take charge of the ranch which
Wilson purchased in southwestern
New Mexico. Cook was manager of
the “W S” ranch until 1887 and dur
ing that time he won his greatest
fame as a scout by serving with the
United States troops in running
down the Apache leader, Geronimo,
after his last outbreak in 1885-6.
In the meantime Cook had pur
chased the ranch in western Nebras
ka which was to be his home for
the next 50 years. At the time of
the Ghost Dance excitement among
the Sioux in 1890-91 he performed
valuable service for the army be
cause he was one of the few white
men whom the Indians trusted.
Ever afterwards they were frequent
visitors at his Agate Springs ranch
and when he died on January 27,
1942, there was sadness among the
Oglala Sioux for they had lost their
good friend, “Little Eagle.’'
In 1923 his autobiography was
published by the Yale University
Press under the title of “Fifty Years
on the Old Frontier’' and the intro
duction to that volume was written
by Gen. Charles King, who served
as a lieutenant and adjutant of the
“Fighting Fifth” cavalry in the
Sioux and Apache wars In it Gen
eral King paid tribute to “the scouts
of the Plains, men famous in song
and story, of whom Kit Carson and
Jim Bridger in the early days and
‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody and, later still,
‘Captain Jim’ Cook were the shin
ing lifihts.”
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hole in it. Although there was no
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