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Illinois Valley News, Thursday, December 4, 1941 Page Two Making ‘Leathernecks’ at Parris Island W i-hington. D. C. LITTLE BUSINESS The President has on his desk a colorful and one of the smartest, has confidential report that would warm a cheerful message for the march the heart of the defense-harried lit ing army of golfers whose scores tle business man if he could read it. Submitted by Lowell Mellett, one range from 75 to 120, or up. “Outside of trying to win the Open of the “passion for anonymity” By LEMUEL F. PARTON White House secretaries, following a »¡¡dated Features WNU Service.) championship, the Masters* and a careful survey in 35 states, the few tournaments once more, my YORK.—On the bestowal memorandum by inference severely of the Maria Moors Cabot main idiea from now on along the criticizes OPM and war department line of instruction is to bring a sim Latin-American Journalism award. handling of defense contracts. recently presented, is the 80-year- pler game or a simpler style to the Mellett fou* d that little business player, ” the Winged Foot blond old Ur. God generally is bitterly disgusted with Dr. Cabot Injects frey Lowell said. Wood headquarters at the excel the whole defense administration, is Hit Bankroll and Cabot of lent Normandy Isle course at Miami convinced that it is being run by Self Into Progress Boston, also Beach where he operates a golf big business and corporation law a generous yers, and is up in arms politically contributor to democratic enter clinic for the benefit of all sufferers about the matter. Mellett warns who would esteem it much bliss to prise. For many years, he has been that the administration had better a steady ground-gainer against the find the road from the rough and do something about the situation disturbers and trouble-makers, not ■ and do it fast or it will be just too in political theory, but in his activi bad in next year's crucial congres ties in the field of science and the sional elections. humanities. He not only bankrolls A long list of specific grievances progress, but helps it over the hur are detailed in the report: Little Above are three photos of marines-in-the-niaking at Parris Island, S. C. At left, recruits begin their dle by his own resourcefulness and firms are excluded from defense three-weck course on the rifle range. Center: After a day’s firing at the range these recruits scour out inventiveness — the true Yankee orders in favor of big competitors, the barrels of their rifles in a long trough of hot water. And at the right we have a view of the leatherneck's genius here. even though there was no difference laundry, with recruits busily engaged at one of the wash racks. in their prices. Endless run-arounds South America ought to be from OPM and army brasshats be particularly interested in Dr. cause the little business men had < abot's now successful and no “in" with the big shots. Small working scheme to bottle sun manufacturers put out of business shine and keep it in the cellar, by the priority system which en like >-lly or preserves. His 1937 ables big concerns with defense con grant of $«16,773 to Harvard uni tracts to hog supplies of raw ma versity was a great help In terials. storing solar energy and today, Mellett also implies that the Divi in Florida and other southern sion of Contract Distribution, estab stales, household hot-water rigs, lished several months ago to help fuelled by trapped sunshine are little business, has so far accom almost as common as oil burn plished very little in the way of re ers up north. sults. Small business is still out in The next year. Dr. Cabot gave a the cold when it comes to getting an similar amount to the Massachu equitable share of defense work. setts Institute of Technology, for the | The gist of the report is an old CRAIG WOOD same purpose. His many contribu story to the President. For months tions to the useful arts of peace, the sand back to the fairways, others have been telling him the including his enthusiastic co-opera where the carpet is green and | same thing, although not so com tion with aviation, may well be put smooth. prehensively and effectively. The down as an antidote to war. He The National Open champion, al creation of SI’AB and the Contract learned to lly a seaplane in his late ! though always a fine golfer, has Distribution division was an effort years and invented a system by reached the top spot over the harder to relhedy the situation. But these which a plane can pick up fuel in way. He has had to fight off the agencies are manned with the same flight. bitterest type of luck, and found his type of executives who have been lie attended M.I.T. two years, path forward and upward largely running the defense program from finished at Harvard in 1882 and, through intelligent study in the mat I the start—big business men. alter laying the foundation of ter of improvement, and this has There isn’t one little business man liis fortune manufacturing lamp helped to outfit him for helping oth among them. black in Worthington, Pa., ers and giving sound advice. Lone Refuge. branched out in gases and car In fact, in all of Washington there bides. He has always insisted i is only one place where a little busi that democracy, to survive, Just what does Champion Wood ness man is functioning in behalf must plow a lot of its gains mean by simpler or more direct of small business. back into the business—which he methods? That is in the justice department, steadily does. His Latin-Ameri “In the first place,” Craig said, where trust-busting Assistant At can journalism awards are in “I can give you only a brief outline torney General Thurman Arnold has honor of his late wife. An impressive view of the militai^’ airport in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil, (upper picture) showing some of the here. I expect to take the matter set up a Small Business section and up in much greater detail later on. installed as its head a genuine little planes of the Brazilian air force, most of which are of U. S. manufacture. Below : Three of Brazil's four —♦— submarines, at their base at I.uakes island navy yard. Brazil keeps these submarines, all of which were built “One main point is the matter of business man. ~!N 1913, Carlos Davila covered He is Guy Holcomb, a strapping, in Italy, in tip-top shape, ready for any eventuality. ■ murders and fires for El Mercurio how the club's face comes through of Santiago de Chile. He was a good the ball. There was a day in golf two-fisted Atlanta filling station op reporter, telling what happened, when everything was pronation and erator, who has never had a pub rather than the so-called open face. I am now a lic job before, hates redtape, and Prize Journalist what he firm believer in swinging through loves nothing better than to tangle Expounds Faith in thought the ball with a squared or closed with a brasshat who is pushing ' Militant Democracy to face—which simply means keeping around a little fellow. Operating from a cubby-hole of h appt n. the club face square to the line of fice, with only a secretary as his Later, as president of Chile and am- flight. “I am also a firm believer now in assistant, and without fanfare and lia -s.idor to Washington, he main tained much of this same detach putting the main burden on the hoopla, Holcomb in the month he has hands, wrists and arms—not the been functioning already has ment. hips or the body. The less work the chalked up an impressive record as line thing that he observed in latter do, the better off you are. a defender of little business men. 1936 was that the world was go “Just watch Byron Nelson, in my He has got them contracts, supplies, ing to hell ill a hand-basket un opinion the finest golfer we have and entry to official doors previously less there could be a successful from tee to green. See how simple closed. collective “organization of his swing looks. It seems to be If you are a little business man peace." lie also observed that all hands and arms controlling the and are having defense troubles, it would be foolish to think that face of the club. Holcomb is the one man in Washing treaties would be an effective ton to tell them t > He may not be stopgap against the oncoming able to help you, but he’ll certainly apocalypse. He was away out “Necessity,” Craig continued, “is try. There will be no complaint on in front in urging bold affirma the mother of many things. In golf that score. tions and aggressive action, in • • • it has become the mother or father stead of pacitistic negations as HITLER C ARVES TURKEY of improvement. I'll tell you about tlie survival technique of The reported new French hookup this part of it. Anywhere from fifty dttnocracy—in which he is a to a hundred of the world's finest with Hitler comes at an especially (ervent 1believer. playing pros move from Florida to bad time for the British -which un One uf the four Luti n-Ameriican California, then back across Arizo doubtedly is why the Nazis put the «bot doors C; r< TipientB of the Maria P na, Texas and Louisiana to Florida screws on Vichy so vigorously. Un pt ue in j< lurnalism. Dr. Davila has again. It is a desperate struggle der these circumstances the Nazi ii his faith 111 a mili tant to break even, even if you win a squeeze on Turkey can be expected at id crustiding clemocr acy, wl neh few. I've made as much as $2.500 to tighten almost momentarily. í i itti he exqxiunds in the public fi mc on one of these winter tours, which In fact, the more the Nazi drive th »ns attvn ding the prize aw ard. As left me a profit of maybe $200. in Russia bogs down with weather, <’Cli tur of t he Editors Pr,css serv ICC. “Then we began to find that par the more likely is Hitler to take the II« » is posioblv the mostl importtant wasn't nearly good enough. A ou'd easier, warmer, short cut through This auto, driven by Philip Falco, 34. of New York, smashed through journalisthc liaison in tl ie new average par for four rounds and fin Turkey toward the oil fields of the tu rnl aud. to a degre e, polit i. .il ish tenth or twelfth, he began to Caucasus and also toward the Brit Assisted by regular tiremen. air raid patrol workers are shown using the guard rails, sending car and VI dente bt •tween North und Si mth discover that you hail to heat par ish oil fields in Mosul and the Eu rest ue ladders in the “air raid" drill staged in I nion Square, New York driver to railroad yards below. Ai city. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, national director of civilian defense, Falco got off with a bruised knee by six or maybe eight strokes to phrates valley. and a cut over the eye. After becoming editor-in < hief For months the Nazis have been watched the boys douse “incendiaries” and rescue victims. win Naturally, everyone began to ol 1 a N.i< ion, he < ante to Wash try out certain experiments. None bringing small boats down to the ingion as ambassador, in 19:8 ot us could afford to stand pat on Aegean via the Balkan railroads at the age of 31. He became what we had. We just had to get ■nd the Danube, and are reported president of Chile in 193?. in a better or finish one of these tours almost ready for landing parly at period of political upheaval, anywhere from $1.500 to $7.000 out tacks on coastel points in the Mid helped incline his country to Its of our pocket. dle East. present liberal trend and land Preparing to meet this. General ' One of the first things 1 had to e<l l>a< k in the United Mates do was improve my putting There Wavell has been sending a con where Ills daughters were edu never was a golfer great enough to stant stream of reinforcements from rated and which he considers win while putting poorly. I did this India, most of them to Iran, Iraq the world’s hope for democratic by finding a more comfortable bal and Palestine. The British sav they leadership. Il is doubtful wheth ance and by going more into the are in fairly good shape though still er we have in South America pendulum idea My approach putts woefully weak in tanks. am I S. A. i itiren who .an Faced with this crisis, the Turks, frequently keep running three and match Dr. Davila's penetration four feet by the cup, but I'll take as usual, continue to I m 1 the enigma ol the mind and institutions of a chance on holding the next one of Europe. Diplomatic betting is anothei country. they w ill bow to Hitler • • • V now, MERRY GO KOI ND ' Trying for a shorter cut to lower ully, knows a scoring," Wood said, “we began to , Bill Bullitt, former ambassador to quite a lot of find that one answer was the France, was asked by photogra trates hemis 1er •ol squared or shut face One excep phers to pose with strip-tease queen pact tion to this is Ben Hogan, who takes Ann Corio, as the two happened to few North o a ¡er a much deeper or fuller swing than beard the same plane in Hartford. e ever dono Am, anyone else Ben weighs only 135 Conn. Bullitt declined. Comment II ibs and bullets were pounds, so he has to use a much ed La Corio, “He'd better never run times an obli longer arc to get those big drives. for office—my fans will snub him And distance off the tee means a at th« polls!” in Chi lean sta A confidential commerce depart build the Chilean state and knows lot in golf today. You can't keep ( An army lieutenant (upper left) and a naxy lieutenant icenter) are tache, photo shows British battle that democracy is not easily come using number two Irons and number ment report estimates that by the by Ho says we were soft, but are four woods trying to hit a green fall of IMS, « 000. X» workers will here shown as they participated in an Eskimo kayak race during a ship H M.S Malaya steaming out of toughening up and getting back our against an opponent using number be employed in defense industries. visit of a navy patrol vessel to Lake harbor, Baffin land. The officers New York harbor after undergoing are members of the Greenland patrol. repairs under lend-lease prograna. “crusading spirit and stoic fiber." five and four irons The number is now 1,500 000 ”'RAIG WOOD, not only one nt the ( greatest of all our National Open champions, but also one of the most Brazil’s Contribution to Hemisphere Defense . 1 Feiv Methods I Fighting ’Raid Bomb/ in Gotham Forced to Improve Luckv Driver