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PORT ORFORD, OREGON, POST istorical ■ > WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK by W R IG H T A . PATTER S O N IR eleased by W estern N ew sp ap er U nion.) Clma Scott 'iOatiaH. (R eleased by W estern N ew sp ap er U nion.) N o te s o f a R e p o r te r to Shared W ash ington ’s SENATOR ALDRICH— AND H is E d ito r s THE NATIONAL WEALTH Birthday When “ Old A cquaintance” troupe SOME YEARS AGO the then Sen played com m and perform ance at HE fam e of two A m erican a r t ator Aldrich of Rhode Island said to White House, understand Peggy ists re sts largely upon th e ir a s m e in his office in Washington: Wood left FD R practically speech sociation with George W ashington “ People would be best served if and their p ortraits of him . They less when she burst forth with: all the wealth of the nation m ight were C harles Willson P eale and his “ Please, Mr. Roosevelt, d ear Mr. By LEMUEL F. PARTON be controlled by, say, a dozen men. son, R em brandt Peale, and coinci (C onsolM -ted F ea tu res— WNU Service.) President, don’t send our d ear boys These m en would realize their re dence also plays a p art in th eir re la over there to fight. I have two arm s, sponsibility and see to it that no one tionship wiati the F a th er of His X T E W YORK.—F or four or five I have two legs, take me—but not i ’ y e ars now, Dr. J . Enrique m ight go hungry or cold.” Country. For R em brandt P eale was Zanetti, professor of chem istry in our d e a r boys!” etc. . . . Leon Hen “ Yes, Senator,” I replied, “th at bom on W ashington’s b irthday— j Columbia university, has been pooh- derson m ay ease out of defense possibly m ight prove true if you F eb ru ary 22. 1778—and his fa th e r poohing high 1 board—tired, ill . . . I hear Nelson exec on sam e picked the right 12 men. I presum e died on W ashington’s birthday—F e b L is t s F i r e B o m b e x p l o s i v e i (Sears-Roebuck | board) will eventually inherit Knud you believe you should be one of ru a ry 22, 1827. A s H e a d D e v i l o f b o m b s a n d sen’s post. them ? I believe I should be, and the Being the son of an a rtist, it m an who is sweeping Pennsylvania was only n atural perhaps th a t D e s tr u c t iv e M i g h t Intim ates of Cam acho believe he avenue will agree with your prem ise R em brandt P eale ger on the incendiary bomb as the if he, too, is to be one of the 12.” should becom e a head devil of the hosts of destruc- I would follow any w ar policy adopt With a sm ile spreading over his painter. So it is ! tion. J u s t out is his book, “The ed by U. S. within 24 hours . . . usually dignified countenance, he not surprising to ! ABC of Incendiaries,” in which he Jolson not stalling, really ilL . . . said: learn th at he be I insists th a t cu rren t E uropean bomb- P eem ’s short-w ave story about new gan to draw a t (ing forays a re pretty clum sy busi- B ritish superplane (The Tornado) as “ My statem ent was a foolish one, the age of eight , ness, since the high explosives con- reported by BBC from London ap let’s forget it.” and by the tim e i stitute a defense ag ain st the spread peared in last “ Things I N ever T hat it was foolish is evidenced he was 13 he had of fire sta rte d by the incendiaries. j Knew ’Til Now” col’m month be by the constantly increasing am ount painted a p o rtra it R em em bering how they blew up fore BBC confirm ation. of national wealth and its ever-in- of himself. buildings to check the spread of creasing equalization among people A ppeasers who claim England C harles Willson the big San Francisco fire, one finds of the nation. can ’t win should read what H itler Peale had m ade the professor’s idea plausible. When th at statem ent was m ade, wrote on that subject in C hapter XII Dr. Z anetti was a lieutenant colo only a lim ited few could own an au the flrst known portrait of W ashing of his book, viz: “ The B ritish na ton (painted in 1772 and depicting nel of the chem ical w arfare service tomobile. Today there is a c ar for him as an officer in the Virginia m i in World w ar No. 1, and from 1922 tion can be counted upon to c arry every four people in Am erica. litia) and had served as a captain to 1926 w as a consulting expert of through to victory any struggle th a t of volunteers under him a t the B attle the League of Nations in studies of it once enters upon, no m a tte r how THE SO-CALLED RICH MAN is of Trenton. When W ashington be chem ical w arfare. Supplementing long such a struggle m ay last or m erely the custodian of wealth. He cam e President, he was constantly this experience with academ ic and how ever g re at the sacrifice th at m ay cannot take his accum ulation with im portuned to sit for his p ortrait. industrial studies of m any years, he be necessary, or w hatever the him either to heaven or to hell. He Some of these requests he denied, has becom e a world authority on m eans th a t have to be em ployed; m ust leave it to be divided am ong but he could not refuse his old bombs and what to do about them and all this even though the actu al m ilitary equipm ent a t hand m ay be posterity. The old adage of three friend, when in 1795 Charles Willson if anything. utterly inadequate when com pared generations from shirt sleeves to P eale asked him to pose for his ta l His m ain idea is that gas dis with th at of other nations.” Long- shirt sleeves still works. ented young son, R em brandt. In sipates and fire proliferates— winded soandso, isn’t he? • • • fact, he granted the boy th ree sit therefore look out for incendiary ONE OF THE ROLES tings in his fa th e r’s studio in P h ila bombs. In Jan u ary , 1936, he H ear an afternoon N. Y. paper is OF A KING delphia and the portrait reproduced wrote In a university publication readying a new colyum ist, not a pro DAVID LLOYD GEORGE told me below was the result. that fire bom bs would be the fessional w riter “but a fam ous per an interesting story in London in This p o rtrait of W ashington was worst peril of the next big war. sonality’’ as a circ builder. S tarts the fall of 1918. I had offered con the only one which R em brandt P eale Two-pound fire bom bs eould be in M arch. U nderstand it is not D. gratulations on his having settled m ade from life, but another of his sprayed over a city and one ef Thompson, who s ta rts sam e time. the Welsh m iners’ strike and getting pictures of the F irst Am erican, not fective hit out of 200 dropped the men to go back to work, with draw n from life, is even m ore fa m ight sta rt 200 fires in widely Radio key m en have been confer their grievances to be settled when mous. Known as the "E q u estrian separated places. He cries ring secretly in W ashington on the the w ar ended. P o rtra it" it is entitled "W ashington I down a la rm ists about gas. He p a rt radio will play in m aintaining “But I did not do that job,” said Before Yorktown” and it was not thinks it would be just as well public contact—in case we a re ac Lloyd George. “ I thought I could, m ade until 1823. But when Chief to do aw ay with slum s, as a de tively involved in a war. E ven d u r for those m iners are my people, but Justice John M arshall, who had fense m easure because of their ing possible bom bardm ents . . . I tried and failed. It was His served under W ashington in the vulnerability to fire. The Nazis have a neat m ethod of M ajesty who accom plished w hat I Revolution, saw it, he exclaim ed “ It Dr. Z anetti was born in Santo Do trying to win favor with U. S. radio could not. He went alone to Wales. is m ore like W ashington him self com m entators abroad. They classi He went to the m iners’ m eetings, than any p o rtrait I have ever seen.” mingo in 1885, cam e to the U.S.A. fy them as heavy laborers—for r a called on m any of them in their In 1796 C harles Willson P eale de in 1900, was naturalized in 1906 and tion card reasons. This entitles them homes, pled with them as one Eng cided to give up portrait painting in 1907 took his doctorate from H a r to two pounds of m eat instead of lishm an to another to forget their and recom m ended his talented son. vard university. He joined the Co lum bia university faculty in 1913, one. P. S. It doesn't work. grievances until the w ar was won. and has held a full professorship They went back to the m ines for the T here is talk of increasing the since 1929. king, not for m e.” d ra ft period to two years. . . . It gave m e a new idea as to what PLEASANT change of subject, Ye ed salutes H om er P rice for this King George m eant to the Eng from fire bombs, is Tom Smith, form of criticism . . . People, he lish people, and his influence with a ball of fire in his way, but one says, who claim the home town them. • • e everybody likes. Seabiscuit day pap er doesn’t p rint all the news was recently should be glad it doesn’t! —W. W. VON LUCKNER S e a b is c u it O w e s celebrated a t IT IS REPORTED that Count A l l to T h is H o rs e theS an taA n i N o te s o f an I n n o c e n t Felix von Luckner is in comm and ta trac k in B y s ta n d e r of a G erm an sea ra id e r operating in P s y c h o - A n a ly s t C alifornia, to The W ireless: P ’rap s they don't the Pacific. In the first World war, honor the g reatest money-winning settle m any problem s on the A m eri Count Von Luckner com m anded the horse of all time. His train er, the can Forum , but they get them out in Seeadler. I knew him in this coun silver-haired Tom Sm ith, probably the a ir and provide a lot of listen try after the w ar. He was proud of was inconspicuous, as usual, but able braw ling. The back alley ta n what he had accom plished for his without him there would have been gle betw een M orris E rn st and Cong. native country, but especially proud no Seabiscuit saga of speed, dollars S tarnes a recent Sunday could be a of not having caused the death of a and rom ance. sell-out a t the G arden. The way single individual during all of his "Silent T om ," as they call him to handle 5th Colum nists w as the operations. He said he did not be around the tracks, was a rodeo rid tem p er trig g er . . Raym ond G. lieve the killing of non-combatants er, cowhand, prospector and black Swing asked why, if H itler has 36,- helped in any way in winning a war. sm ith in Colorado, W yoming, and 000 planes, he didn’t pour them a t If I had to be captured by a Germ an Montana. About four y e a rs ago, B ritain when the conditions for it raider, I should hope it m ight be C harles S. Howard, la te r owner of w ere good. We are, he hints, e a t com m anded by Count Felix von P ortrait ot W ashington, m ade hy Seabiscuit, hired him to train the ing too m any Nazi figures without Luckner. R em brandt Peale when he was only Howard stable, then unknown to salt . . . It was hard to get worked . • • • 17 years old. fam e. The new train er discovered up over "R eb ecca," even with R. , WHEN PROSPECTORS MADE Seabiscuit on an out-of-the-way New Rem brandt, to the public as his sue- , England trac k and persuaded Mr. Colman, I. Lupino and Judith Ander- | FORTUNES AND CAREERS son in excellent jobs. E ngland has | IN THE EARLY YEARS of this cessor. But the son was not im m e- j Howard to buy him for $8,000. The taken too m uch lately for anybody to century Jack Ham ill and Percy diatcly successful and went to horse has earned $437,730. c are about one m an ’s love storm s. Robbins were p a rtn e rs prospecting Charleston, S. C., w here he had his The te a r jerk s w ere too pro-blitz Mr. Smith is probably the only in the Canadian northland for gold. studio for several years. In 1801 i . . . Ja s. T hurber m akes a discov horse psycho-analyst in the L ater Robbins, a trained mining en he went to E ngland to continue his ery about quizzes. They reveal how He was about three gineer, becam e the m anaging direc studies under his father’s instruc- j world. m uch the contestants don’t know. years old when he sta rte d being tor of one of the big gold mines at tor, the famous Benjam in West, but which is colossal. a horse-w rangler and learned Tim m ins. Ontario. When we en after a short tim e there his health things about horses th at nobody tered the first World w ar he, as an failed and he returned to his home The Front Pages: Lots of the anti- else ever suspected. N aturally, Am erican citizen, returned to Chi in Philadelphia. He intended to FD R dailies a re m aking it tough for he becam e an a m a te u r^ rc te rl- cago and Joined the arm y. After abandon a r t for agriculture but, future historians. The sam e jo u r narlan, but psy.i'.nlogy helped a the war he went to South Africa as after painting a few portraits, he nals th a t exalted Willkie up to Nov. lot In bringing through Seabis- the m anaging d irector of the De was surprised to And him self hailed 5 a re calling him A Thing now. Be ru it. The nag was fussy and Beers diam ond m ines. At the time a s a worthy successor to his famous cause he doesn't care if licking Hit given to brooding. Long before, of his death some two years ago, father. ler is a p arty m a tte r or a m a tte r for Tom had learned that pleasant Robbins was operating big dredges In 1804 he advertised him self as hum anity . . . The B erlin journals on a placer gold field at Candle, "R em brandt, p o rtrait painter in I com panionship is necessary for are easie r on him than som e of his horse well-being. A fter a few Alaska, on the shores of the Arctic large and sm all, head of M ulberry old supporters . . R ay C lapper ocean. court, leading from Sixth, three I experim ents, he picked for Sea- says events a re not consistent, biscuit's sta b lrm a te an am iable Ja c k Ham ill has been in the mil doors above M arket stre et" and ex "therefore why should I be consist old sw aybacked roan nam ed lionaire class a dozen tim es, and plained that he desired to be known ent? Some people once they adopt has been broke equally as many by his flrst nam e alone, "th e ad- 1 Pete. They nickered and mus- an idea, bury it in the ground and tim es. Today he controls big cop junct P eale serving only to show of j ilr d each other happily and Sea- go on the re st of their lives defend biscuit began to pick off purses. per m ines in the northw est C ana wHom descended." T hree years later ing it, without ever re-exam ining it Of course w hat happened was dian territo ries, and is m ining pitch he visited P aris to paint the m ost to see w hether tim e and the ele blend and extractin g radium at distinguished m en of the day and ( that S eablsruil's ego was bucked m ents have caused it to decay into up by having somebody around G re at B ear lake, beyond the Arctic was successful in this enterprise. a w orthless handful of dust. In that he knew he eould beat. circle in Canada. After a second trip to P a ris in 1809. way you can alw ays be consistent— This represents a couple of in he cam e back to A m erica the follow "Silent Tom ” is 50 y e a rs old. and often wrong.” . . . A colum nist tensely interesting care ers of men ing y ear and from th a t tim e, until Among other winners he has trained in Hawaii observed: " I have w rit who have done things in the wide- his death in 1860. his fam e as a por for the Howard stable a re Mioland ten m any lines that have been sto open spaces, m en who have added traitist, a pain ter of historic scenes ‘ and the wild-eyed K ayak II. brought len. By num erous radio gag w rit to the w ealth of the world. They and a lithographer (one of the flrst from the Argentine by Mr. Sm ith’s ers solemn. But then, it is com a re. and were, of a type that is to practice the a r t in Am erica) was son, Lin. He has about 200 horses forting to know. T hat som ebody worth knowing. to handle and study. undiminished. really reads this colum n.” • • • T From Blue Jays to Dinosaurs I f'h e th e r i t ’s a b lu e ja y , a d in o s a u r o r a P a le o zo ic fo ssil, th e N a tio n a l M u s e u m a t W a s h in g to n , D. C„ is g la d to g e t it. S p e c im e n s la st y e a r n u m b e r e d 368,082. T h e s e p h o to s sh o w y o u h o w th e ta x i d e r m is t goes a b o u t h is jo b . H By RUTH WYETH SPEARS HAT could be a g reater lux ury than two extra closet* in your bedroom! That is exactly what a young friend of mine thought. But, when they were built in, she was painfully con scious of their angles and the room seemed much narrower. This sketch shows you how the feeling I of width was restored and the angles were m ade to m elt away. A w allpaper border all the way around the room helped to soften down the angles of the closets also W CHEST MAKES SPACE SEEM H A R R O W — ► WALL PAPER BORDER ADD FULL SKIRTED DRESSING TABLE SOFTEN ANGLES ANO I. ACCENT WIDTH— L [t-LL. added an exciting color note to the plain painted walls. The chest F ir st th e s k in a n d c o a t o f f e a th S to u t c o rd is w r a p p e d a ro u n d of draw ers in the upper sketch ers a re s e p a ra te d fr o m t h e re st o f e x c e lsio r. T h e a r tific ia l b o d y a n d was moved to another p art of the th e b o d y . n e c k m u s t b e m a d e to fit p e r fe c tly . room, and the long spacious dress ing table was built into the space between the closets. Tne top of the table and stool and the fram e of the m irror were enameled por celain blue which was one of the | colors in the wallpaper border, j Dotted swiss skirts were fastened on the inside of the finishing j boards across the front of the ta- | ble and around the stool with snap fastener tape—one side tacked to the wood and the other sewn to the skirt tops. * • * NOTE: D irections for m aking th re e types of dressing tables a re illu stra te d in booklet No. 1 of the series which M rs. S pears has p re p a re d for our re a d e rs. D etails for m aking the frilled lam p shades illu stra te d today a re in No. 5. which also contains a description of the series. E a c h booklet illustrates 32 hom e, m aking projects and m ay be o rdered di re c t from M rs. Spears by sending h e r yo u r n am e and a ddress with 10c in coin for each num ber requested. Send o rd e r to: A b o v e : T h e b lu e j a y ’s n e w a r tific ia l b o d y is in s e r te d i n th e fe a th e r c lo a k a n d s e w e d in sid e . T h e e n tir e o p e r a tio n ta k e s tw o a n d a h a l f h o u rs . M B S . R U T H W Y E TII S P E A R S D r a w e r 10 N e w Y ork B e d fo r d H ills Enclose 20 cents for Books 1 and 5. R ig h t: A n d w e m ig h t c a ll fo r a p p la u s e fo r ta x id e r m is t Ä s c h e r n d e r , w h o m a k e s h is a p p e a r a n ce a t th is tim e . P e r h a p s h e can h e p e r s u a d e d to s tu ff a b u tte r fly as a n e n co re. N a m e ................ . . . . . . ........................................ 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Zworykin, who cam e here 1 editors he's no tenor . . , Leland On m y flrst day in a town I had ing on it to m ake it suit his ideal of in 1919 to m ake distinguished con Stowe, by-lining “ 1 Saw Mussolini never visited before, each person I I a true likeness of the g re at man. He tributions to A m erican science— j H um bled" (in Look), said: "The passed gave m e a cheerful, friendly took it with him when he went notably the developm ent of the elec G reeks have very little respect for With his col- I g reeting The little children told m e abroad and exhibited it in Italy and tron m icroscope. the F ascists' fighting qualities be th e ir nam es and th eir parents' E ngland w here it a ttrac ted a g re at leagues of the Radio Corporation of cause the F ascists alm ost never nam es. I w as not a stra n g er in a deal of attention. After his re tu rrf to Am erica, he now unveils the super- fight h a rd when the term s a re even" stra n g e place. 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