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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ MAY 15, 1942 Washington, D. C. ALASKAN HIGHWAY After all the hullabaloo about the vitally needed military highway to Alaska, it now looks as if it would take at least two years, perhaps nearer three years to build it. One trouble is there is still an argument about the route. To date the army has picked a route by way of Edmonton, center of the prairie state of Alberta, which is longer than the route advocated by Alaskan territorial officials. The Alaskan officials propose a short quick route straight up from the state of Washington to Prince George, then on to White Horse. Part of this—about 400 miles to Prince George—already is built. And if interned German, Italian and Jap anese prisoners were put to work on the remaining link, it might be finished before winter. However, both the army and the Canadian government favor the longer route via Edmonton. This would follow the chain of Canadian airports to Alaska. These airports are operated by the Canadian Pacif ic railroad, which may be one sig nificant reason why the Canadians want a road to link them up. The army originally picked this route because last summer some of its planes, en route to Alaska with green pilots, got lost and cracked up. So it was suggested that a highway link ing the airports would serve as a guide to airmen. The army also favored this route in order to send gasoline and supplies by truck to air bases. The war may be just about over, how ever, before this interior high way is built. • • • JAPANESE PROPAGANDA Inside intelligence information is that Japanese propaganda agents are now marshalling their forces for a concerted attack against the Unit ed States in Latin America, with Argentina, Brazil, and Chile as focal points. Japan will resort to a number of typical Axis methods to sway neu tral countries away from collabora tion with the United States, includ ing the Axis-worn tactics of making overtures and giving assurances that she has no imperialistic aims toward these countries. On the oth er hand, the Japanese will empha size that the United States has been greedy in her international trade re lations and has imperialistic designs on Central and South America. In launching this propaganda at tack Japan has instructed her agents to do everything possible to solicit the good-will of Spanish and Portuguese representatives in Lat in American countries. In addition to propaganda agents and diplomatic represen tatives, Japan has recruited agents in commercial firms throughout both Europe and the American countries to propa gandize persons of Latin culture and Catholic faith. In this con nection, plans have been made to go even so far as to try to exploit his holiness, the pope. Already $50,000 has been forward ed to Japanese representatives in Chile to be used in attempting to bribe government officials. One of the most audacious phases of the Japanese plan is the one that calls for an atten to induce a revolution in the United States by co-operating with factional groups within the country, and creating dis sension among the people by sniping at the Roosevelt administration. • • • ROOSEVELT FAMILY DINNERS In the usher’s office, just inside the front door, an old-fashioned call- board is hung, to indicate when guests are in or out. There is space for 20 names, but on a recent day it carried only the names of Mrs. Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins and Lore- na Hickok, long-time friend of both the First Lady and Hopkins, who often stays at the White House. (The President’s name is never entered on the board.) A year ago it was possible to drive along Pennsylvania avenue, turn in at the White House gate, hand a calling card to the footman at the front door and eventually receive an invitation from Mrs. Roosevelt to come for tea. Today, the gates are closed and heavily guarded. The two ave nues flanking the White House are barred to traffic entirely. Never in 100 years has the White House been so heavily guarded. The teas and receptions are cancelled for the du ration, and the normally democratic residence of the Chief Executive stands cold and aloof. * • • NAZI RACKETEERS Hitler’s st-mi-hysterical demand that his stooge Reichstag vote him more dictatorial powers—which it promptly did—was of particular in terest to Intelligence authorities in the light of secret information con cerning a recent scandal in high Nazi circles. According to a confidential report it was discovered that a well-organ ized racket, protected by big-shot Nazis, was looting the food supplies of U-boats when at their home ports. COMEONE called Dick Bartell, ^ now with the New York Giants, “a ball player’s ball player.” The irrepressible Bartell is something more than that. He is “everybody’s ball player.” Born 35 years ago in Chicago, now in his 16th big league season, Bar tell is still traveling at his top speed, as full of flame and smoke as he was ten years ago. If all ball play ers hustled up to the Bartell stand ard the game would pick up a much faster pace. They’ve moved him around from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia to New York to Chicago tc Detroit and back to New York again in this 16-sea- DICK BARTELL son pilgrimage, but they haven’t re moved any of the old pep that packs his 14S-pound system. The veteran Giant still spells ag gressive with a capital A. It’s all quite simple when you talk to Bartell. *T happen to love baseball,” he says, “and I like to hustle. Once in a while I find the old legs are not what they used to be, but a short rest always takes oare of that. It’s the legs that get you, not the batting eye. Last year in my 15th season I still batted .303 in 104 games, a few points above my all-time average. I hope to beat .300 again this season with any luck. * • • Pastor s Two Records Whatever morbid fate may attack Bob Pastor in his next start, prob ably against Joe Louis, ysta can still hand him two records. No. 1—He deserves some brand of woodland chaplet for leading all ex-collegians in the heavyweight group. No other campus-educated dome has yet matched Pastor’s place among the major leather chuckers. Ex-collegians have found few happy hunting grounds in the ring. No. 2—A near record from the prophet’s corner. Pastor informed your correspondent last summer that he would win at least ten straight fights and thereby get his third crack at Joe Louis—a some what strange ambition. The rubbery heavyweight has more than kept his promise. A combination of gameness, smart ness, speed and experience has lifted the ex-Violet more than once from near oblivion. _ We are not quite sure, however, how smart a fellow is who spends most of his career trying to spend his evenings in the same pit with Joe Louis. • • • A Big Show Paul V. McNutt, federal security administrator, has suggested a set of American Olympic games, with the 48 states in a hot scramble for supremacy. This would be a home-grown, homemade show of unusual interest, loaded with arguments and intersec tional debates. It would have to be something more than a state-for- state contest, where the job of han dling California in track and field might be more than any other single state could handle. California, with Dean Cromwell and others handling unlimited talent, would have a de cided margin. But this isn’t the only angle that might be worked out. First there could be a state by state ranking. Also, there could be an intersectional battle bringing East against West, or North against South. Or there could be other sub divisions—East, Midwest, Far West, and South. The main McNutt idea has un limited possibilities. It could be worked into a matter of state pride and sectional pride, on a par with any college football rivalry. And it would be a big lift for nation-wide interest in harder, keener training. Here is an idea that should be worked out under proper direction without too much waste of time. * • * The Rookie Crop Unless the draft scythe operates shortly the rookie crop of 1942 will be high above the harvest of last year. Oscar Judd, Yank Terry and Johnny Pesky of the Red Sox; Nan ny Fernandez of the Braves; Wil lard Marshall of the Giants; Stan Musial of the Cards; Hal White of the Tigers; Bert Haas of the Reds; Vern Stephens of the Browns—these are only a few who have at least shown they belong in big league harness. U. S. Scouts in Guiana’s Jungles Protected from hordes of ferocious mosquitoes by veil-trimmed helmets, a party of U. S. troops is shown (left) scouting in the tough Jungle country of Surinam, better known as Dutch Guiana, one of the places where we now maintain forces to protect American interests. Right: A U. S. army lookout high in the trees of the Surinam brush. The keen eyes of the observers posted there spot any strange activity in the jungle. Students Go A-Farming at Farmingdale, L. I. There is a threatened shortage of farm labor this year. In upstate New York alone 25,000 men and boys are needed this summer, and some 7,000 boys from city high schools have enrolled for farm training. Many of these are being trained at the State Institute of Agriculture in Farmingdale, L. I. At the left yov. see students at work in the dairy section of the institute. Right: Some of the students who are taking a course in farming. Herring Army to Satisfy Army Appetites Skippered Lifeboat Every year millions of herring have swarmed up the Taunton river to spawn at the headwaters near Middleboro, Mass., and have been caught by Indian traps and white men’s nets. This year, the U. S. army has put in its order. Photo shows hundreds of herring being pulled in with a dragnet. In this spot the daily catch runs up to 1,000 barrels. Salter Samenov, 27, of Riga, Lat via, was a handy crewman to have on the lifeboat of a torpedoed U. S. ship. He is showing how he rigged a sail of blankets. He steered the ship by the stars and made a cam era record of their three-day expe> rience. Hold It, Goodfellows! ‘Land of the Free’ Aviation cadets at Goodfellow Field, San Angelo, Texas, grapple with a billowing parachute on a windy day. You’ll appreciate the difficulty af their task if you have ever opened up an umbrella in a gale. Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the U. S., pays his first visit to the Statue of Liberty. Here he gazes at the symbol of freedom from the boat that took him to Bedloe’a • island. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) She Gave Americans the Memorial Poppy C'OR the first time in a quarter of a *• century, Memorial day this year finds the United States at war. On that day, May 30, millions of Amer icans will be wearing a red poppy in memory of the men who gave their lives for their country. Most of those who wear them will be hon oring sons or brothers or friends who perished during World War I, for out of that conflict grew the memorial poppy idea. But to others this custom has a more poignant significance this year. For the blood-red flower they are wearing is symbolical of the blood shed by an Ameripan boy to whom they said good-by only a few months ago—a boy who died at Pearl Har bor or on the Bataan peninsula or in the Java sea or the Pacific or Atlantic oceans. How did the custom of wearing the red poppy on Memorial day orig inate? Visit the quiet little univer sity town of Athens, Ga., and as you walk along its shady streets you may meet a sweet-faced, gray-haired, soft-spoken Southern woman whom the citizens of Athens know as “Miss Moina” but whom millions of World War I veterans call “The Poppy Lady.”. For it was Moina Michael who had the inspiration for this tribute to America’s fighting men and who made the red poppy the symbol of their valor and their sacrifice. The story of that inspiration and the growth of the idea is told in a book published recently by Dorrance and Company of Philadelphia—“The MOINA MICHAEL Miracle Flower,” written by “The Poppy Lady” herself. In 1918 Miss Michael, then a teacher in the nor mal school of the University of Georgia, entered training at Colum bia university for overseas service with the Y.M.C.A. On the Saturday morning before the Armistice a young soldier, visiting the hostess house maintained in the building where the Overseas Y.''!.C.A. War Secre taries had their headquarters, laid on Miss Michael’s desk a copy of a woman’s magazine. During a spare moment she looked through the magazine and a strik ingly colored picture caught her eye. It was the illustration for a reprint of Col. John McCrae’s famous poem, “In Flanders Fields.” As she read the poem, she found herself read ing again and again the last stanza. In a moment of sudden inspira tion, Miss Michael seized a used yellow envelope and scribbled on it a poem “We Shall Keep the Faith.” At that moment she also took a pledge to herself always to wear a red poppy as a sign of remembrance. That day a committee from the 25th conference of Y.M.C.A. War Secretaries,* then in session, brought her a check for $10 in apprecia tion of her efforts to make a home like hostess house of their headquar ters. She told them of the pledge that she had just taken and that she intended to spend the money for red poppies to wear in honor of the men who had died “in Flanders Fields.” Impressed with the idea, this com mittee reported it to the conference and soon afterwards many of the secretaries began asking Miss Michael where they could get pop pies to wear. That afternoon she went on a shopping trip and returned with two dozen small silk red pop pies which she gave them. Subsequently other conferences adopted the red poppy as the em blem of the Overseas Y.M.C.A. Workers, to be worn in honor of the soldiers who had perished in the war. and through the efforts of Miss Michael many other organizations gave their support to the idea. In 1920 the American Legion at its na tional convention in Cleveland adopt ed the Flanders Field Memorial Poppy, the Legion Auxiliary did like wise in Kansas City in 1921, as did the Veterans of Foreign Wars the next year. From America, the memorial pop py idea spread to England and many other foreign countries where, as in the United States, these little red silk flowers are made by the maimed, gassed and wounded men of World War I who have no other source of income. It is estimated that the profits from their sale totals more than $7,000,000 in all the coun tries where they are sold and every penny of this goes to the aid of dis abled veterans and their needy de pendents. 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