Port Orford post., February 21, 1941, Image 4

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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.
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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.”
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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.
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•
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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,
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N a m e ................ . . . . . . ........................................
A ddress .........................................................
Man Is Affected
Histories m ake men w ise; poets,
witty; the m athem atics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals,
grave; logic and rhetoric, able to
I contend.—Bacon.
A
FRIENDLY AMERICA
E R E 'S a clever R ussian, scien- j The Story T ellers: Sen. Sheridan
Although W ashington sat for his
STRANGER. T here is no such in­ p o rtrait by the 17-year-oM R em ­
tiflcally educated, who took a Downey found him self labeled
dividual in any sm all city or town ot brandt P eale in 1795, it was not un­ J different tack than m ost before the "M orton Downey" in New Horizons.
ru ra l A m erica. In these places all til 1823 th at the a rtis t finally finished J revolutionary gale. He is Dr. Vladi­ His squawk ought to convince the
a re friends.
I t He spent those 28 y ears in work­ m ir K. 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. I was surrounded by A m erica, the p o rtra it was bought by eye, from 20 to 50 tim es m o re power­ . . . "The R eader's Digest R eader"
friends in a p lace stra n g e to m e. It ' the United States senate and it now ful than the ordinary m icroscope. is m ust reading It is a collection
w as the friendliness of rural hangs In the vice president's room It is said to reveal far horizons of of th a t m iniature m ag’s choice se­
m icroscopic research.
A m erica.
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lections over an 18-year period.
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