Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, April 06, 1939, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextWHO’S m NEWS |||| WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK.—There is an Anthony Edenish flavor about the way Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles denounces Germany in the _ ... absence of Our Welles No secretary Hull, Flop in Poll of and there is an Best Dressers Edenish flavor about our Mr. Welles himself. He is tall. He is lean. He has a wee, precise mustache, and why nobody has picked him in a best-dressed poll is a mystery. His long, big nose is perfectly cut, too, and not a hair is out of place in the thinning pompadour that roaches back from a domed forehead. This is not, however, to hint that the undersecretary is any thing less than 100 per cent American. He was born in New York City 46 years or so ago. President Roosevelt’s own Gro ton and Harvard shaped him, and he is at home in four or five clubs that insist on looking up candidates in the Doomsday book of the Revolution of '76. His church, naturally, is the Episcopal church, and his home now is understandably in histor ic Maryland, where two sons are no doubt also preparing for Groton. The diplomatic gauntlet that he ran to reach his present post ex tends back to 1915 and Tokyo. Be times he has been much in South America. He has been first assist" ant since 1937 to Secretary Hull. ♦ {~)NE of Carl Sandburg’s songs runs: “I have led a quiet youth, careful of my morals; I shall have an old age full of vice v A , . n and quarrels.” Youth in Peace So it goes with And Quiet; Now Walter Bren- In Rum and Riot nan > making a distinguished film career playing likable did rep robates. Hollywood pegs him as the successor to Will Rogers, and four Rogers pictures are being readied for him. He is a personable young man of 40, but, in “Barbary Coast,” “Kentucky,” and such earlier films as “Smilin’ Guns” and “The Lariat Kid,” he came through handsomely as a tough old-timer, and now that’s his ticket. He likes it, and, living these roles, becomes a sage, homespun old codger given to offhand, David Uarum apho risms. I have heard of similar occupational trends in Holly wood. He says he is growing old happily. He first upped himself as an old ster by lying about his age to get in the war. Gassed in France, ho lost all his teeth and got a rasp in his voice, which also helped. He raised pineapples in Guatemala, made money, lost it in Los Angeles real estate, and then crashed the films. Born and reared in Swamp scott, Mass., he is a master of the quaint western and southwestern idiom. \\l HEN this writer was doing a ’ v short turn helping build the Panama canal, he fell in with a Jamaica Negro water boy, a sort of pit i if Gunga Din of a F. J. Taylor Has squad of Parai . Jamaica Boy's so swampers, Idea of Canal who was wor ried about the canal being too narrow. In the quaint lingo of the British-taught island Negroes, he used to say: “Yes bahs, ships grow hugely in coming years and if some is fighting ship it must go swiftly and not fear other passing great ship. Axing parding sir, we Jamaica boys say canal need great enlarging.” Frank J. Taylor, president of the American Merchant marine, returns from the canal to New York with the same idea. He says congress should spend $300,000,000 to widen the canal for both commercial and national defense reasons. Mr. Tay lor’s career is Brooklyn’s favorite “boy who made good” story—from $1 a day to $35,000 a year, which is the possibly vulgar epitome of such tareers in this day and age. He was an orphan lad in • Manhattan slum, at work at 12 as an apprentice at Robbins dry dock in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. He rose in politics, in the state assembly for 12 terms, sherilT, commissioner of records, welfare commissioner and comptroller of New York City. Retiring from the last office in 1937, he went to Florida, but the steamship owners tracked him down and burdened him with this $35,000 job. He fights government intrusion on private enterprise, but says the shipping interests will co-operate ef fectively with the United States maritime commission. © Consolidated News Features WNU Service. University Cadets Engage in Mimic War Games Preparations for miniature war games by cadets of the Reserve Officers’ Training corps at the University of California at Los Angeles were held recently with modern anti-aircraft equipment moved in on the West wood, Calif., campus. Cadets enrolled in the coast artillery unit of the student corps were instructed in actual operation. The equipment included a three-inch anti-aircraft gun, director, height finder, searchlight, sound locator and machine gun. Maneuvers are part of a practical training corps. TEMPORARILY TAME First quadrupeds to be born in the San Diego zoo, these young dingos (Australian wild dogs) will soon be come as vicious as their parents who were imported from Australia two years ago. Is Hitler Planning Ukrainian Conquest? Map shows huge eastern European area inhabited by Ukrainians, whom Germany’s Reichsfuehrer Hitler would group into one nation under domination of the Third Reich. Recent Nazi conquests in the former re public of Czechoslovakia and his trade overtures to Rumania lead international observers to believe the Fuehr er is paving the way for his “drive to the east” in which a new state would be carved, principally from Russian territory. Centenarian Receives Centennial Ticket r , * • ■ ||y ;;i/?., py.'A.;;»••.«<'*»»/ y ’>' _■_'_ »• ”* •*.» , ,*■* , , t ' s^Jlbpl||* . H Dr. Newell Patterson of East St. Louis, 111., who, like baseball, is celebrating his 100th year, received the first of the souvenir St. Louis Cardinal opening day tickets commemorating the national game’s cen tennial. A Civil war veteran, he said only bad weather would keep Him away ftom the Cardinal-Chfcago Cub opener in April. Justice Pierce Butler Satisfies Curiosity ' n%n; m k v ■ -- ,».. Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the United States Supreme courl reversed the usual proceedings recently and looked through the operating end of a newsreel camera. He satisfied his curiosity after posing for cameramen, feeling, evidently, that turn about is fair play. PIGEON EXPRESS v .. >. 'ii.‘'^'--'""'""" ' ,j .Margaret Gillen, 10 years old, a atient in St. Clare’s hospital, New York, where she is recovering from Iwo operations, holds a pigeon which flew from Elizabeth, N. J., recently, bringing her a canary, the gift of J. N, (Ding) Darling, cartoonist and outdoor enthusiast. The canary is in the small aluminum pullmar on the pigeon's back. The pigeon flew 20 miles against a strong wind in 40 minutes without mishap. Star Dust ★ Charlie Is Taken Down ★ Politics Promotes Ann ★ Orchestra Leaders All By Virginia Vale PEOPLE in New York are still talking about Charlie McCarthy’s first week there, in fact, a new aristocracy sprung into being; its mem bers were the people who had actually gone to the first broadcast (tickets were ecarcer than hen’s teeth), 'and they are still high-hatting their friends who couldn’t get in, and running perfectly good luncheons and dinner parties by insisting on telling about how cute Charlie is. “You simply have to see him to appreciate him,” they declare, which is rather hard on the people who have never seen Charlie and probably won’t get a chance, as Edgar Bergen is too busy for per sonal appearances. Charlie’s kidnaping, one evening, by the amusement editor of one of the newspapers, very nearly stirred up a lot of trouble. The famous little man is insured for $2,500. Bergen was so worried that after Charlie’s reappearance he took to taking Charlie apart and hiding him in sections. Ann Sheridan has sort of crept into stardom by the back door, al though she deserves the promotion. It’s “Naughty but Nice” that stars Jrer, and studio politics are involved. For this is Dick Powell’s last for ANN SHERIDAN Warner Brothers, and it’s an old studio custom to play down the de parting star, since advertising him just means that you’re promoting property that will soon belong to somebody else. So the charming and hard-work ing Ann gets big billing in this one, after five years of doing her best with whatever roles came her way. Katherine Hepburn is doing very well indeed in her new theatrical venture, “The Philadelphia Story,” although it has not, at this writing, been given the acid test of presen tation in New York. Apparently Miss Hepburn still cherishes some S flection for the screen; she has ought the film rights to the play and will do it herself before the cameras eventually. Nowadays it seems that every body who can’t get a job feels that the answer to the unemployment problem is becoming an orchestra leader. Prize fighters, millionaires, tap-dancers, movie stars—all are more than willing to step in front of a band and wave a baton. But it’s a rare thing for a man who works with his hands to become an orchestra leader—Russ Morgan is about the only exception to the rule. He’s an ex-coal miner, you know. He worked in the Nanticoke Mine, near Scranton, Pa., until the fore man fired him for playing a trom bone in his spare time. The fore man happened to be his father. Today he is one of the top bracket orchestra leaders. Before he was twenty-one he had written arrange ments for such famous musical men as John Phillip Sousa and Victor Herbert. 3s If you’re considering writing for radio here’s something to remem ber. Due to the threat of federal censorship, radio stations are lean ing over backward in their efforts not to offend. The Federal Commu nications commission, which is in charge of renewing broadcasting li censes every six months, has hinted they will frown on the following forms of radio fare: fortune tell ing, astrology or similar sciences, solicitation of funds, except for rec ognized worthwhile charities, mis leading statements, defamatory statements, obscenity, programs of fending religious or racial groups, over-melodramatic children’s pro grams, liquor advertising, too much advertising and too many phono graph records. —*— ODDS AND ENDS—AII the big name bands will be in New York for the \f arid's fair . . . Joan Crawford has picked South America for her impending vacation . . . Bing Crosby brought the law down on a Topeka lawyer recently . when arrested for speeding the lawyei alibied, “I was listening to Bing Cros by and forgot to look at my speedome ter" and when Bing heard of it he wrote the man a note saying “You’ve been punished twice; how much do I owe you?" C Western Newspaper Union. REMEMBER . . . “It’s All In The Examination” Ur. L. N. Huff, 64 Broad Street Healey Bldg., Atlanta A Spe clalist In Eye Refractions for over 30 years, and a State Board Examiner for Optometrist since 1923, leads the South In eye ex aminations. Let Dr. Huff take care of the only pair of eyes you will ever have. /. : ■'/. . y‘ r - -'(Wry-" " - DR. L. N HUFF Payne’s Paris Apartment Attracts Many Tourists Although “Home, Sweet Home,” one of humanity’s immortal songs, was first sung at the Covent Gar den theater in London more than 100 years ago, every year sees Ameri cans seeking out the apartment in Paris where John Howard Payne composed it, writes Edwin Robert Petre in the Detroit News. Payne, author, poet, actor, the atrical manager and American con sul, has several shrines in that gay city for he lived there many years, but the “Home, Sweet Home” shrine which attracts so many tourists an nually is at 156 Galerie des Bons- Enfants, in the Palais Royale. The “pleasures and palaces” of which he sings were all real to him. He was living .in a palace, the Palais Royal, enj»j.hig the delights and pleasures of the great city with con genial friend, among whom were Mary Shelley, the wife of the poet, and Washington Irving, then at the height of his popularity. Payne, in his loneliness, which he continued to endure years after his famous song was written, fell in love with Shelley’s widow, who, at the time the song was produced, was only 23 years old. They met that year at the Nelson hotel in Paris, but she was more interested in Washington Irving, and Payne disinterestedly tried to arrange a match between them, but Irving left the country. Payne and Mrs. Shelley, who never remarried, continued close friends for years, and in one tf her letters to him. written in 1836, she expresses her pleasure at seeing him, and says that the years (She was then 39) had not improved her looks as they seem always to im prove the looks of a ms.n. Marco Polo’s Book John Masefield’s introduction to “The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian” says: “Marco Polo’s book was not received with faith by his contemporaries. Travelers who fee marvelous things, even in our otvn day, are seldom believed by those who, having stayed at home, have all the consequences of their virtue. When Marco Polo came back from the East, a misty, unknown country, full of splendor and terrors, he could not tell the whole truth. He had to leave his tale half told lest he should lack believers. How little Marco Polo was credited may be judged from the fact that the map of Asia was not modified by his discoveries till 50 years after hi* death. His book is one of the great books of travel. Even now, after the lapse of six centuries, it remains the chief authority for parts of Central Asia, and of the vast Chinese empire.” Chesapeake Bay Retriever Natural History says: “The gen erally accepted theory as to the origin of the Chesapeake bay re triever is that he is descended from two dogs from Newfoundland res cued with the crew of an English brig, wrecked off the Maryland coast. The American ship Canton made the rescue in 1807 and landed the Eng lish crew and the dogs on the shores of the Chesapeake bay. The dogs were given to two gentlemen of that region in return for kindnesses to the crew. The two dogs, a male and a female, named Sailor and Canton, made such a great repu tation as water dogs and duck re trievers that they were mated with nondescript dogs of the neighbor hood, which were used for the same 1 work.” Are Not Insects Spiders, scorpions, ticks and mites are not insects, says Collier’s Week ly. They belong to a class of ani mals called Arachnida, which com prises a host of marine creatures, including the king crab. Liberty Bell to Allentown, Pa. In 1777, when the American forces were about to leave Philadelphia the Liberty bell was taken to Al lentown to prevent its falling into the hands of the British, who were then at the city’s gates.