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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. S«»5ÉÍ! about: WHO'S NEWS THIS W EEK... By L e m u e l F. Parton The Big Book Craze. ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— EW YORK.—George Wingfield, We’re promised a historical novel longer than any yet—say A ~ who has been rolling “snake eyes” for the last seven or eight half a million words or so. Of years, is now making six or eight course, the author probably uses straight passes. I some words at least twice, but ingneld don’t know wheth- er the news has that won’t reduce the gross ton Agairt “in nage unless they’re very short th e M o n e y ” reached the East, but the word from words. Los Angeles is that he has regained S Way Back When Thursday September 23, 1937 Scenes and Persons in the Current News By J E A N N E FAMOUS SONG WRITER WAS NEWSBOY D EOPLE who are able to help others express happiness and those who amuse us always have a chance for success far out of pro portion to circumstances of birth or environment. So, rightly, the world sees to it that persons who can drive away care have no financial worries. Irving Berlin was born in Russia in 1888, the youngest of eight chil dren. His father, a cantor or psalm- singer in the village synagogue, brought the family to New York’s East Side tenement district when Irving was four years old. The boy loved to sing, but his first jobs were as a newsboy, and a telegraph de livery boy. His was the depressing life of the slums child, street-fight ing, swimming in the dirty East riv er, dodging traffic in the streets at play. At fourteen, he left home to sing in saloons for pennies the pa I can’t take it. While still con ownership of the Golden and River valescent from “Anthony Adverse,” side hotels in Reno and is again I was stricken down looking out from behind a tall stack by “Gone With the of blue chips. Wind” and had such The one-time buckaroo and faro a relapse that even dealer who gained a fortune of now I barely can $50,000,000 and owned and operated hold on my stomach the sovereign state of Nevada for such comparatively quite a few years, quietly faded out light and trifling in 1933, told the court he was broke stuff as volume VET and relinquished the state with a to ZYM of the en sportsmanlike gesture. He implied cyclopedia. that the croupier had stood him on When reading this his head. His friend, William H. modem bulk litera ture, it upsets me to Irvin S. Cobb Crocker, had a mortgage of $800,- 000 on his two hotels. He owned find my legs going and ranches all over the n atiL J6?»™!* temperamental Chilean, becomes second foreigner to win United States women’s to sleep before I do. __________ And the con- mines *n, F°r,ef t Hi,,s (N’ Y’) m eet 2—Desperate to save Shanghai, the Chinese Cen stant pressure makes callouses on state, in the somewhat metaphys ical way in which people owned should« hast,ly order*d military training for women, who are fighting the Japanese shoulder to my second mezzanine landing. rifuJee f7om th mea;. so™e havealready been killed in action. 3-Tiny Nancy Felio, youngest American I admit these mass production things then, but his equities came refugee from the war in the Far East, as she landed in Seattle, safe and sound. books serve nicely as door stoppers to just a couple of white chips to be and for pressing wild flowers. I tossed into the kitty. He did this also heard of a chap who detected gracefully and started out to get an NOT I, SAYS JOHN “Miss America” Shuns Her Crown a prowler under his window and other stake, Senator Nixon of Ne vada told me how he got his start dropped a frothy little work of Ac “He walked into my office,” said tion weighing slightly less than nine pounds on the back of the fellow’s the senator, “and tossed something neck, dislocating three vertebrae. on my desk. It was a diamond At last accounts, the surgeons were ring. I haven’t any idea how much still picking long jagged chapters it was worth. He said he had locat out of his spine. ed a good-looking outbreak south of In my present mood, what 1 crave Goldfield and wanted me to grub is the romantic stuff of olden days, stake him on the ring. in which our sainted Aunt Sophie “ ‘I’m not running a hock shop,* was wont to inscribe “Alas, how I said. ‘There’s a three-ball joint sad!” or “Only too true!” in pale around the corner.’ Irons tossed to him. He was in the violet ink on the margins. What picked up the ring and start chorus of a musical show, was a happened to all the Aunt Sophies, ed “He out. Before he got to the door, waiter in a Chinese restaurant, and anyhow? a sudden hunch hit me like a mule a singing waiter in a couple of • • • kick. I called him back and gave night clubs. An Actor’s Temperament. him $300 on the ring.” Up to this time, the happiness E’VE all been waiting for Wingfield had already staked his Irving Berlin brought tô others was vy something to top it, but the best wheeze of the month remains claim, and started a prospect hole. limited to the few people who could A little more dig- see and hear him. His voice was the one that was emitted, not by a N ix o n A lso ging( and there not unusual enough to bring him to paid gagster, but by a simple stage P ro fite d in was the Consoli- the top rank of entertainers. Then, hand at one of the studios when Mr. Leslie Howard refused to go on M in e V e n tu re dated mine- and he started writing songs. The first riches for both one brought him only 37 cents, the making a picture until a group of distinguished visitors, including Mr. Wingfield and Nixon. Also the start next, $25; but thereafter he ad Charles Norris, the novelist, had of Goldfield, a ghost town now, half- vanced rapidly. He worked often New York.—John, youngest child buried in sand, but a roaring desert until two or three o’clock in the of President and Mrs. Franklin D. been shooed off the set. "He ain’t sore at you gents,” stat metropolis for a few years. Wing morning, and by the time he was Roosevelt, arriving home from Eu ed the stage-hand to the ousted par field’s winning streak was on in thirty-six, 300 songs had been pub rope, took advantage of the oppor ties, “but he’s been playin’ ‘Ham those days and it was only a few lished under his name, including tunity to deny again that he had let’ on the regular stage and he ain’t months later that he broke the bank such world-known hits as “Down on squirted champagne in the face of the Farm ,” “ Everybody’s Doin’ It,” used to havin’ a crowd watchin’ him at the Tonopah club. the mayor of Cannes, France, and while he’s actin’.” He joined the Montezuma club, “My Wife Has Gone to the Coun hit him over the head with a bou If Mr. Norris and his friends want got himself some nice store clothes, try,” and “Alexander’s Ragtime quet, during the annual “battle of ed to see some really great acting polished up his grammar and moved Band." flowers.” “It must have been two * AtIa“t,c Crty. N. J.—Blonde, blue-eyed Bette Cooper (above), seven • • • they should have patronized the pro into circles of finance where the other fellows. I’ve never met the teen, of Hackettstown, N. J., chosen the most beautiful girl in the United fessional wrestling matches. That’s house percentage is doubtless stiffer PRESIDENT WAS LAUNDRYMAN mayor,” he reiterated. His engage States at the annual contest here, walked out on the promoters shortly where they put on the heavy dra than that of faro. But it seems that ORK is a habit, and to those ment was announced to Miss Anne afterward, forsaking screen tests and other rewards for school and home. matic stuff—beautifully rehearsed, he is beating even that. Bette is 5 feet 6y„ inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. ’ * who acquire it it becomes fun, Lindsay Clark, of Boston. perfectly done. relaxation coming through the kind A FRIEND of this writer, who of work done. In analyzing the lives Children’s Education lived several years in Japan, of successful men and women, we I LIKE the way the wealthy A classes in England rear their suggests that, if, by accident, For usually find that they got the work children. Little Rosemary doesn’t eign Minister Koki Hirota should habit early in life and never lost it. recite for the company after dinner, find himself dressed in spats and Herbert Hoover was a worker. He and if Master Jones-Terwillager Mi pin-stripe trousers, but with an Ori was born in 1874, in West Branch nor gets uppity at school, he gets ental robe instead of a morning Iowa, the son of a blacksmith. His thrashed. | coat, he would find a middle way father died when he was six years Many a rich American has known and solve the dilemma of Japan’s old, his mother when he was nine; how sharper than a serpent's tooth half feudal, half modern industrial and he went to live with an uncle it is to see his daughter grow up a I state. who operated a Quaker academy in wanton and his boy turn out a wast “He hates his morning coat and Oregon. Herbert earned his board er. Yet, with few exceptions—so J striped pants,” said my friend. by doing odd chores, feeding and few that the newspapers comment » w • » he gets currying the horses, milking cows, on them—it never seems to occur J a p M in u te r “When home at night, he and tending the furnace. All of to these fond fathers that less of W o rk s Best in never loses a min- this was in addition to his regular coddling and pampering and spoil school work and, as if this were not ing in adolescence and more of N a tiv e A tt ir e ute in «e‘tinK into enough work for a young boy, he Oriental clothes. wholesome discipline might produce In the dress of an occidental diplo studied English literature and his a higher average grade of heirs. tory outside of school hours. Later What set me to thinking along this mat, he works like one, as wily as line was being t’other night at a the best of them, given to strategy party where a poor little four-year- and trick reasoning. At home, in a old, having already the pitiable as beautifully embroidered Japanese surance of a veteran prima donna, gown, he reads Confucius, as a was fetched in to give impersona pupil of the aged scholar, Mitsuru tions. She never again could imper Toyama. I cite this duality of mind sonate natural babyhood though, and dress merely as symbolic of the more’s the pity ! And her pert small internal contending forces of Japan, brother was encouraged to domi vestigeal feudalism and Twentieth nate the talk. century industrial imperialism. In Mark my word for it, that kid is a very literal sense, this dead cen going to come to no good end—not ter of old and new epochs accounts h*®0“ “ * mor® and more imminent in Europe, Germany hastens to protect her youth even a well-spanked end, which for much in current Japanese state from the most horrible of modern weapons—gas. As pictured here, officials oversee the distribution J would help. craft that is bewildering to the mod “ bout’$T)aih7copye flt proper,y beior® the y°un?st« ’ »re allowed to take them home at « £ marks • « « ern mind. Mr. Pincus' Coup. “ Hirota is not of the Samurai TN THESE topsy-turvy times lib- caste,” he said, "but he stems from 1 eral-minded patriots who are romantic old Japan and goes only Sudden Stop for Navy Cruiser SIGNS FOR F. D. R. striving to steer a middle course part of the way with the Mitsuis and between ultraenthusiastic left-wing Mitsubishis of the great industrial ers and ultraconservative rightists dynasties who think they can shoot might do well, methinks, to follow their way through to a vast Asiatic in Salem, Oregon, Herbert worked the example set by Mr. Pincus. In his youth, he was a as an office boy for his uncle, and Mr. Pincus had opened a clothing empire. zealous leader of the ‘Zen’ sect, went to night school until he had store. Immediately on one side of tonsured Buddhists, gospel enough credits to enter Leland Stan him was the clothing store of Mr. • was humility, pacifism whose and turning ford university. He worked his way Ginsberg and immediately on the Suddenly, he through by acting as clerk for the other side was the clothing store of the other cheek. Mr. Dreifus; and three clothing switched to the ‘Black Sea’ society, registrar, and handling and deliv stores in a row were too many even a fire-eating outfit of militarists and ering the San Francisco News on jingoes. the campus. Later he started a for Essex street. laundry agency, calling for the bags So the adjacent competitors framed a plot to put the newcomer “ I J E WAS a stone mason's son, of soiled laundry and delivering the out of business. Next morning their * 1 apprenticed as a stone cut bundles himself. In 1893. Herbert Hoover got a job rival, coming down to open up, ter. and educated by the Geneyosha, found over Mr. Dreifus' establish a fervid patriotic society, with ‘sim- with the United States Geological ment a flaming legend, to wit: ~ .. plicity’ for its society. He had natural ability at btone C u tte r motto In his first engineering. That together with the BANKRUPT SALE And above Mr. Ginsberg's door N o w Shapes effort, he failed to habit of work, gained rapid prog was this equally prominent an Jap Policies paM his examina ress for him. He became nationally I tions for entrance known as a successful engineer and i nouncement: to the Imperial university, but tried a business man. In 1928 he became | CLOSING OUT SALE President of the United States. Within an hour, smeared across j again and was successful. He be Herbert Hoover was born with no gan as a government clerk, was ad Washington, D. C.—Jeanne Kava the entire front of Mr. Pincus' store, spoon. Orphaned early, h e ! nagh, twenty, pretty, blue-eyed Iowa exactly in between the other two, vanced, entered the diet and finally silver had to fight (or every bit of knowl girl, pictured here, has been ap appeared a huge sign reading at the cabinet. He is an intelligent edge, for every opportunity. But j man, keenly aware of the anomalies pointed by President Roosevelt as follows : Annapolis. Md.—Football's In the air again, and watch out. Army secretary, with the power to sign and anachronisms of Japan's poli Herbert Hoover was born with the MAIN ENTRANCE. habit of work, and he had the good mule. There s plenty of dynamite in the 1937 Navy squad, pictured in his name to all land grants and pat tics and social structure.” IRVIN 8. COBB. luck to keep that habit His re workout here. Whitehead, speedy back, is shown being stopped in his ents. She is the youngest person • Consolidated New« Features • —W N V Servir». WNU Service. ward was success tracks as he breaks loose with the pigskin from scrimmage. ever to hold this position. Civilization Marches On in Europe <h-WNU Service.
