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I WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK I I By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Faaturaa?WNU Sarviea.) NEW YORK.?We are quite cer tain that there is a chipping sparrow out our way which didn't stand still long enough to be count ed. but at any Stuffed Bird Cuti rate Roger Peterson's Count Tory Peter ToS,7S0fi00fi00 5,750,000,000 receives respectful, j even admiring attention, and no challenges or quibbles about it. Concurrently the National Audu bon society, of which Mr. Peterson | is educational director, begins a drive for the protection of birds and other wild life in defense areas. At the age of 26, Mr. Peterson proved that bird lore can be made to yield a lot more than mere bird seed. That was in 1934, when he published his booh, "Field Guide to the Birds." As bird books go it was a best-seller, warmly praised not only by the somewhat eso teric colt of blrd-fanelers, bat by a much wider pablie, which appreciated its clarity and sim plicity. There came other edi tions and then his "Field Guide to Birds of the West," and his "Junior Book of Birds," of 1939. All In all, Mr. Peterson's books and magazine articles were so successful that he has had plen ty of time to count birds?even Ave billions at them. He not only writes but illustrates his books, having emerged from the New York Art Students' league as a highly qualified decorative artist. He is known as the best American authority on field identification of birds. Mr. Peterson had an adventure at the oonvention of the society at Cape May last year, which, so far as we can learn, was not picked up by the news hawks at the time. It seems a group of ornithologists, Pe terson included, got up at 4:30 to clock a scheduled hawk migration. It didn't come off and all were downhearted until a rumor got around that a black-necked stilt had been seen near the lighthouse pond. There bad been no stilt in this sec tion since 1870. The party set out for the spot Finally far across the pood, inaccessible to any dry land ap proach, the bird was sighted. Mr. Petersen said It would be necessary to approach as near as possible, disturb the bird, and then observe Its flight care fail y. He and William Fish vol unteered to brave the mad and eoUL They waded in, and at times were up to their armpits In slimy mud. Finally Peterson waved his arms at the stilt It didn't move. Approaching near er, they discovered It was as stiff as a plank. The convention finally ran down the story. The National Academy of Sciences at Philadelphia had had a housecleanlng and heaved out a lot of stuffed birds. Some rival bird fans of the Delaware valley had re trieved the stilt and set it up across the pond. ? TIP IN Maine, on last summer's *?' holiday, this writer talked with an old road-aide philosopher who ; was concerned with problems aria in a from the Pro*.Parry Boldly lengthening Trumpeti an 'Old lift - span in Age Movement' En? "They don't do much dyin' up here," he said. "Down at West Newton, they had to shoot an old I feller, Just to start a graveyard." Professor Ralph Bartaa Per ry, at the raeatty af philosophy af Harvard adversity, la simi larly concerned a beet eM age, bet tor a different reason, la a brUHaat assay la a recent Issse af the Princeton Alumni Weak ly, he rallies the oldsters against being "bustled around by their Jnriers In politics; he notes the capitalstloa af arise old age to bumptious youth, and chal lenges Rabbi Ben Esra by In sisting that there's as use grow ing aid with bias, or anybody else. If old-age la to he merely a tolerated sbert-eader la the Hfs sweepstakes. "The meet striking evidence ef the down fall af the aged," writes Prof co see Perry, "Is to be found la the domestic etrele." "The authority of the father was first broken by the mother, and the children poured through the brooch. The last remnant of paternal au thority was the period in which the father eras an ogre, who came home ad the and of the day to deal with majot offenses. He eras no longer magistrate, only executioner. "But even this role disappeared when domestic criminology was modernized and the child's insubor dination was regarded as a person ality problem, to be solved by love, hygiene and psychoanalysis." ^ Greek Children Are Starving Threatened Famine Is Held To Result From Looting By German Soldiers. NEW YORK.?Only food supplies from the outside world can save 2,000,000 children in Greece from death by starvation this winter, Laird Archer, foreign director of the Near East Foundation, warns in a report on a survey conducted recent ly with the help of Charles L. House, who remains in Greece as head of the American Farm School in Sa lonika. Mr. Archer and his wife returned to this country from Athens two weeks ago. His report coincides with another on the situation in Greece, contained in a cable re ceived here by Nicholas G. Lely, Greek counsul general. The threat ened famine is the result of the vo racious looting said to have been carried out by the German army. More than half of Greece's ordi nary milk production has been taken away by the killing of cattle and all of her imports are stopped, Mr. Archer said. What little milk was available had been taken by the Nazi invading forces and all the Red Cross ships which were sent from this country before the war with milk for Greek children have been sunk, his survey showed. Italians More Lenient. However, Mr. Archer said the Italian occupation authorities, who have replaced the Germans in most parts of Greece, have on the whole refrained from the practice, syste matically carried out by the Nazis, of interfering with relief projects and confiscating supplies for military uses, in this situation, he said, he saw a hope that food sent from abroad now would actually be per mitted to reach the war sufferers for whom it was intended. Mr. Lely reported that conditions are improving since the Italian army, which is less cruel and brings along its own supplies, has moved in. The consul general was Informed that friction was developing increas ingly between the Italians and the Germans and that Athens is full of British soldiers who were not able to get away when the city was evacuated by the allies. They are being effectively hidden by Greek civilians and even the wounded are being cared for in Greek hospitals without the knowledge of the occu pying authorities. Nasi Savagery. As an example of Nazi savagery Mr. Archer told how German sol diers raided public ovena where civilians had sent their food to be cooked, having no fuel of their own. In Psychlco, a suburb of Athens, the Germans let the water run from all hydrants to cut down the pressure during their entire occupation. When they departed, no water was left for the vegetable crops upon which the civilians were dependent for most of their food. In Athens, Mr. Archer declared, the Germans had even gone so far as to take the full output of the vege table canning factories, leaving nothing for the Greeks for the win ter. The Nazi army not only lived off the country, but seized everything exportable. Sabotage continues, although it meets with severe punishment. About 800 persons are dying every day from starvation, the cable re ceived by Mr. Lely said. Meat prices have risen tenfold, sugar six fold and potatoes twentyfold, when any is available. Night Sentry Does Duty, But Not an Iota More CAMP LEX, VA.?Lieut. Eugene Hondel, Fifth regiment officer at the guard, says a night aentry sta tioned In the railroad warehouae dis trict of Camp Lee stopped a freight train and ordered the engineer and fireman to step down and iden tify themselves. When the sentry reported the inci dent, the officer asked him, "Why didn't you check on the conductor, too?" '"He was in the caboose, beck in the Sixth regiment area," the sentry replied. Memphis Retains Safe Driving Lead in Nation MEMPHIS, TENN. - Although Memphis had only eight deaths in traffic accidents this year 'and is leading the nation in safety among cities of the 300,000 population class. Commissioner of Safety Joseph P. Boyle is not satisfied. "All of these deaths could have been avoided by proper precaution on the part of the drivers," Boyle said. "Speed, disregard for traffic laws, or just plain careless driving was to blame for all the traffic deaths," Boyle said. Death Rate in U. S. Army Is Lowest in History WASHINGTON.?The war depart ment reported that the army's death rate in 1040 was the lowest in his tory. A preliminary analysis, the de partment said, showed that the 1M0 death rate was only 3.0 per 1,000 men, compared with a 3.1 rate for 1930. It attributed the showing to "the entrance at a large number of young men and the absence at serious epidemics." . Blast of Bomb Is Seldom Found Fatal Resistance of Human Body Proven to Be High. LONDON. ? A young English anatomist. Prof. S. Zuckerman, fa mous for his researches into the anthropoid ape, believes the human body can resist bombs and their blast far more effectively than bricks, mortar and concrete. Since the bombing of Britain's towns and cities by the Luftwaffe began it has been generally held that blast would destroy the lungs or other vital parts, but the main damage is due to bruising caused by the impact of the Mast wave on the body's wall. Some people have been killed by the blast itself, but hundreds have escaped even the slightest injury, while brick and concrete buildings have collapsed. Others have been in rooms in which bombs have exploded. The buildings have collapsed around them, but they have escaped unhurt. One man was only 25 feet away from a 2,000-bomb. If a person throws himself down when he hears a bomb coming there is only a slight chance of his being hurt by the blast itself. Most of air raid casualties are caused by fall ing debris. Research and experiment on this question of bomb blasts have re sulted in the design of shelters be ing altered. A government laboratory recently designed a new-type steel helmet for fire watchers and civil defense work ers. It was criticized on the ground that it was not as strong as the type used by the services. It was tested. This is what hap pened. Live ammunition was fired at one of them jit a velocity of be tween 350 and 400 feet a second. The helmet was only slightly dented. 40,000 Tree* Planted in U. S. Tung-Oil Project WASHINGTON.?More than 40,000 tung trees, the beginning of what department of agriculture scientists hope will be a successful tung-oil industry in the United States, were planted last spring in test orchards throughout the Gulf coast region. Sharp reductions in imports of tung oil because of the war in China and the generally unsettled condi tions in the Far East have stimu lated interest in growing tung trees in this country. Tung oil is an in dispensable ingredient of quick-dry ing paints and varnishes. For three years the department's bureau of plant industry specialists have been scouting tung orchards in the South for superior trees. Comb ing these orchards, they selected some 500 trees which were hardy, high yielding and early maturing. Nuts from these trees yield a high percentage of good quality oil. About 80 of the best trees from this selected lot of 500 were chosen for propagation. Thousands of young trees were produced from them. Besides breeding tung trees bet ter adapted to the climate at this country which will yield larger quan tities at oil, department of agricul ture scientists are studying vari ous problems of growing trees. Research men warn prospective tung growers, however, that the in dustry is still an expensive and speculative enterprise if attempted on a large scale. Woodsmen in New York Keep Weasels as Pets ALBANY, N. Y.?Bane of chicken farmers, the weasel is the valued house guest of many Adirondack woodsmen, the state conservation department reports. The bloodthirsty little animal puts a house cat to shame as a mouser. His service is invaluable inasmuch as large amounts of stored food stuffs may be spoiled by rata and mice, and replacements often in volve a long trek to civilization. The weasel usually lives in the log walls of the camp cabins and one forest ranger said his pet. Wander ing Willie, prowled around the place undisturbed by the presence of a human being. Australia Finances War With Compulsory Loans MELBOURNE.?Prime Minister Arthur Faddan of Australia, an nounced a war budget of $906,000,000, featuring a compulsory loan plan. The budget includes $061,000,000 for war expenditures. Fadden said this "national con tribution" will apply to every in come, no matter how derived. A person with an Income of $450 a year, without dependents, will make a $33 loan contribution; an income of $1,500 will provide $285; $3,000 will provide $864; $15,000 will pro vide $8,888, and $120,000 will pro vide $104,388. Foes' Stamps Banned In German Exhibits BERLIN.?German philatelists have learned that dealing in poet age starape of countries at war with Germany is forbidden. The "Berlin LokaFAnzeigar" said: "Trading in theee stamps would aid the enemy financially, and exhibition at such stamps runs counter to feelings of the German people." L?a???a?aa? ' ? Iowa Couples Cross Line for Wedding BETHANY, MO. - The mar riage license trade is booming in this northern Missouri town since Iowa passed a law requiring pros pective newlyweds to take a blood test before they can get an Iowa license. A record for one day was estab- I lished when 19 marriage licenses i were issued. ?i 1 j Treasure Hunters Range the Hudson ' ? They Hunt for 'Gentleman ( Johnny's' Lost Gold. ALBANY, N. Y.?An abnormally low water level in the Hudson has ' revived tales of British bullion lying in the river bed. Legend says that "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne dropped a golden treasure into the river to avoid con fiscation when he surrendered to American Revolutionary forces. The story, wholly unsupported by any evidence, places the British general's cache somewhere near Stillwater north of Albany. Numerous searching parties have sought the legendary wealth without success. Recently a group was re ported pooling funds to conduct a scientific hunt. The gold is said to have been placed in gun barrels, which were then sealed and dropped into the water. More credence can be given re ports of other findings recalling the British invasion of the Colonies from Canada. The lowered waters reveal shadowy hulks below the surface, which rivermen assert are the ruins of bridges and barges constructed for passage of the troops. On the shores near Stillwater, residents have unearthed parts of cannon balls through the years. Whether they were British or Ameri ican equipment is a question. Some writers insist they were American stores rolled into the river under a "scorched earth" campaign con ducted by Gen. Philip J. Schuyler. Swain, 11, Runs Away to Reunion With Girl, 8 ST. LOUIS.?Pretty Peggy Ran dall spent her summer vacation in St. Louis and she won a constant and devoted admirer in George Mc Lean Jr. When Peggy left for her home in Memphis, George promised, "I'll come to see you as soon as pos sible." That was a big promise. You see, George is only 11 years old and Peggy is eight. But George kept his word, even though he had to run away from home, outwit several detectives and take a 330-mile train ride by him self to do it. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. George McLean, finding him missing, noti fied polkx. Detectives at Union station spot ted a boy in his Sunday best, care fully going over an array of dolls at the toy counter. He bought one for $3. "Hello," a detective greeted him. "Where are you going?" "To Memphis," the boy replied. "They're expecting me. I've got a ticket. See?" The blond, blue-eyed boy fitted the runaway's description, but he was so confident and self-assured that the detectives hesitated to detain him. While they hesitated, the train pulled out, with George aboard. In Memphis, George reached his destination safely, clutching the doll for Peggy. They spent an inseparable day. Meanwhile, Peggy's stepfather, Bruns McCarroll, a Memphis detec tive, notified the McLean's and George's mother came by plane to bring him home. Doctor Late, Policeman 'Officiates' at Birth LOUISVILLE, KY.?"All in the day's work" was the midwifery job of Patrolmen R. E. Loid and Ken neth Smith when a son was born to Mrs. L Cox. ? Answering an emergency call, the officers found the Cox home dark I because of a power failure, and the father wringing his hands because the doctor had not arrived. Patrolman Loid, who previously had aided in the delivery of seven babies, took charge with the aid of a flashlight. Later, at a hospital where the mother and baby were taken, hos pital attaches said both were in Ane condition and praised the officer's work. This Automobile Driver Knows Horn; end Thief TAMPA, FLA.?Charles Epps sat reading a newspaper in his home ' when an automobile horn Mast ahat tend his thoughts. "Very familiar," he reflected. Be i went to his parked automobile and < began following the auto with the I loud horn, pausing only to pick up ! a policeman. i The car with the loud horn stopped at the home of J. B. Bass. So did Epps and the policeman. A few i minutes of questioning and Baaa ad- 1 nutted be had taken the horn and a pair of fog lights from Epps' car, I five tires and two more horns from 1 other motorists. kl f ? fl ITATfll LV ?a ?! iBiijiiim cuoran ?i?d???K tun?M *n SEES 'PLANNED ECONOMY' AS FORM OF FASCISM WASHINGTON is figuring on the war in Europe continuing at least Into, and possibly all through 1943, and that we will be a part of it. No one has attempted to say when ?r how up to this time, but it is expected the opening may be with Japan and Hitler's support of the Japs against us. Washington hopes to stay out of active participation in the war un til our war production can be great ly increased, in fact trebled. That would mean an annual expenditure of 50 billion dollars a year. It would also mean cutting production for civilian use by at least 50 per cent. The opinion in Washington is that all small manufacturing concerns that cannot be adapted to war pro duction will have to close and get out of business. It will mean the closing of thousands of small fac tories, a large proportion of them located in small towns. Big business is to be regimented, as the farms are regimented. The government will not operate them, but will dictate what they will pro duce, whom they will employ and how they will operate. It is to be "planned economy" for American business. When the war is over the "planned economy" is to be applied to busi ness throughout the world, as well as to America, if America has the "say so" and in Washington they believe America will be in a posi tion to dictate. It is through such "planned economy" that an after the-war depression is to be pre vented. That, briefly, is the program at j Washington for the future. To me it is not a bright or promising fu ture, either during the war or after it is over. To me it is the end of the American way of life, the American system of free competi tion under which we have grown great. To me it is the state capital ism of Fascist Italy. INFLATION WOULD MEAN EQUALIZATION OF POVERTY WE ARE TOLD in Washington that America is to spend SO billions a year on preparations (or war and aid to the democracies. That is about three times as much as we have spent during. 1941. Where are we to get this SO bil lion dollars a year? What are we to use (or money. Does it mean the printing presses? I( it does, it means inflation that is disaster. It means destruction o( all our values, as individuals and as a nation. It does not mean the equalization o( wealth, but it does mean the equali zation of poverty, and it means poverty (or every one, with nothing to divide. Our domestic and foreign policies are so tied together that it is impos sible to determine where one stops and the other begins. America's future is in the bal ance, with the scales tipping def initely against our American way of life, our American civilization. ? ? * THEY, TOO, SERVE WHO MAKE CHEESE THE DAIRY SECTION of Wiscon sin, one of the greatest dairy pro ducing districts in the world, is a two to five-hour haul to the Chicago market. Wisconsin cheese is now going to England, purchased and paid for on lease-lend account by the United States for the English government. Wisconsin cheese is selling in English stores at less than people in Chicago can buy it. To help England, it is necessary to provide more than war supplies. Food is a major item. Of the first seven billions appropriated by con gress for British assistance, prac tically one billion will be used for food products from American farms, and American farmers have reason to be proud of the job they are doingSs. ? ? ? OCR ARMY FOR A REPUBLIC to create an effective fighting force there must be a purpose, enthusiasm, equip ment, discipline. Today we have an army of one and a half million men, but to the rank and file at that army, all tour ingredients are lack ing. To assemble and maintain that army has cost close to two bil lion dollars. If we are to equip and feed the democracies of the world, it would have been better if we had kept that million and a half men on the farms and in the factories, where they might have been doing their part in providing the food and equipment so badly needed. They would have been more effective and better satis fied. ? ? ? THAT SHRINKING DOLLAR THROUGHOUT the last 300 years in all nations the cost for the neces sities of life?tor food, clothing, shel ter, fuel?has taken 85 per cent of the income at each individual. In this country as late as 1909, the gov ernment took an additional five cents out of each dollar for taxes. But taxes are now taking about SO cents, leaving us only five cents that we can do with as we please. That may account tor the decrease In collections at Sunday church ?ervices. _ ' I Wm (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) No. 1 U. S. N?ti1 Hero FOR more than 30 years the body 1 of John Paul Jones has rested In a marble tomb in the crypt of the United States Naval Academy chap el at Annapolis. Recently a pre cious relic was placed in front of his sarcophagus. It is a plaster bust of America's No. 1 naval hero, made more than. ISO years ago by Jean Antoine Houdon, the famous French sculptor. This bust, one of only Ave of Its kind known to be in existence, was | presented to the Naval Academy museum by an organization known as the Friends of the United States Navy. Back of this gift is an interest ing story. In 1779 Capt. John Paul Jones I was placed in command of the American frigate Bon Homme Rich , ard. Upon his arrival in Paris, Jones, who had been a Mason since 1770, applied for affiliation with La Loge des Neuf-Souers or the Lodge of the Nine Sisters (meaning the nine Muses). This lodge, besides be ing a fraternal organization, was also a club for artists, writers and other intellectuals. Benjamin Frank lin was its worshipful master and among its members was Houdon, the sculptor. Before the lodge could act upon - Jones' application, he had sailed away to challenge the power of the "Mistress of the Seas." On Septem ber 23, 1779, occurred his historic victory over the stronger British man-of-war, the Serapis, during But of John Paul Jones by Bon Jon. (Photo, courtesy United Statu Naval Museum.) which he uttered his immortal words of defiance?"I have not yet begun to fight!" When Jones reached Paris the next spring, all France was eager to honor him. Not only did the Lodge of the Nine Sisters welcome him and initiate him into its mem bership, but it commissioned one of its members, Houdon, to make a bust of the victor for the lodge. King Louis XVI was so delighted over the defeat of the British frigate by the Bon Homme Richard that he gave Jones the Cross of Military Merit, the first time it had ever been pre sented to a foreigner. Jones was proud of this honor and asked Houdon to depict it on the lapel of his coat when the sculptor made the original terra cotta bust of him in 1780, even though congress had not authorized him to accept a dec oration from a foreign monarch. Between 1786 and 1791 Houdon made 16 plaster copies of the bust on orders from Jones, who present ed them to Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Lafayette, Rob ert Morris, John Jay and others. The one presented to Jefferson was owned by the Boston Athenaeum for many years. But some time before 1900 it mysteriously disappeared from that museum and has never been found. Today the whereabouts of only five of the plaster copies of the original terra cotta, including the one recently presented to the Naval museum, are known, but sev eral scholars are trying to find out what became of the other eleven. In 1791 Jones ordered Houdon to make a plaster replica of the bust and on it, besides the Cross of Mili tary Merit, show the Order of St Ann, which Catherine the Great, em press of Russia, had given him in recognition of his services during the Russian war with Turkey. Soon aft erwards Jones wrote to Jefferson, then secretary of state, asking Jef ferson to obtain for him authority from congress to keep the decora tion. At this time he stated that a congressman from North Carolina, his adopted state, had asked for a bust of him and that he had directed Houdon to prepare one, showing the Cross of St. Ann, and forward it to North Carolina. The state has no record of having received it and some of its historians are trying to determine what became of it be cause of the celebration in honor of Jones which is planned for 1942. Houdon'i bust of Jones was de clared by some of his contempo raries to-be a remarkably accurate likeness. President James Madison wrote to one of Jones' first biogra phers: "His bust by Houdon is an exact likeness, portraying well the characteristic features stamped on the countenance of the original." In criticizing a portrait which this same biographer had chosen for his book. President Thomas Jefferson wrote: "Houdon's bust of himjs an excellent likeness. Why have they not taken a side face of him from that? Such a one would be perfect." Smartly Styled Draperies Any Beginner Can Make CO PATRICIAN, these draperies & topped with a graceful swag! You may make them yourself? combining just the colors for your room. 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