By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK.—As Andre Maurois becomes an “immortal,” it would seem that there ought to be honorable mention, or at least a simple garland But for Spouse ft some kind, Maurois Might for Mme. Mau- Still Be Mortal is: Here a few weeks ago, he explained how his wife, also a person of distinction, learned typing and stenography to keep his script flowing smoothly and legibly to the publishers. He writes only in long- hand, said to be quite as cramped and illegible as that of Horace Greeley, and she alone of all mor- tals can translate it. Seat No. 35 in the French academy might still be vacant but for Mme. Maurois. He was born Emile Herzog, in Rouen. His literary divagation was the first short-cut to immor- tality in a line of ancestral wool- en drapers reaching back to the year 900 A. D. He was a bache- lor of arts at 15 and a doctor of philosophy at 18. He began work in his father’s factory, but got right on the job as a philoso- pher and literateur, so, when he was assigned to the British as an interpreter in the World war, he could fill them in on Byron, Shelley and Keats, and did so. Later he explained Disraeli to the English, and, around the clubs, they bit their pipe-stems and admitted that this French chap knew a lot of things they hand’'t even suspected. ‘‘Ariel, the Life of Shelley” put him in the big literary tournament in 1923, where he has been ever since. He is sli and fastidi . gray hair deploye« right, gest the sensitiv has an terested in politics only toric sweep. He weigh: an apothecary and it is g man and finished wordsmith that he qualifies for the academy. With keen insight, he has experted Amer- ica on his numerous visits here, clocking us through the valley of despond. His latest appraisal found us moving out of national adoles- cence into fully rational, adult state- hood. He hopes for the best, but is not a fuzzy optimist. The ‘decline of the humane ideal,” he thinks the most disquieting trend of the modern world. i PS WALTON MOORE, * department, who will years old next February, like Chips, thinks the way ahead through the hu- R. W.Moore, 80, manities. Mr. Isthe Mr. Chips Chips showed Of State Dept. he was no fos- sil when they tried to bench him, and no more is Mr. Moore—boarding the Pan American clipper for Europe. acute, skeptic: » 13 of the state eo B81 Mr. i hes He is amenable in old-fash- foned behavior—a tall, quiet, gray, courteous Scutherner—and alertly adaptable to all new de- vices of living. He is keenly in- terested in aviation, having taken many airplane flights along the Coast, and one on the German dirigible Hinden- burg. The state department's participation in international ar- rangements for landing fields and the like has been in his hand. In congress from 1919 to 1930, Secretary Hull. President Roosevelt made him assistant secretary of the department. He is a bachelor, driving 15 miles to his work from Fairfax, Va. He looks as if he could end all war talk just by serving mint juleps all around. Ss fp H ERE’S a general who has saved more men than any single gen- eral ever killed. tionary forces against armies of jun- . . gle germs—Dr, Saving Life, Not Victor J. Hels. Taking It, Forte er of the Rocke- Of This General feller founda- tion. He is in the news with his report on food re- search in India, in which experi- ments in animal feeding suggest new access to health and well-being for humans. On May 31, 1889, his father sent him to the bard to turn loose the horse, with the Johns town flood rising. He floated away on the barn, his parents drowned, and he kept on going through Jefferson Medical col. lege, 16 times around the world in his 50-year fight against dis- ease. Until 1914, he was with the U, 8, marine health service, then with the Rockefeller foun- dation, His fame blazed out thiee years ago with his book, “An American Doctor's Odys- sey,” and later publications, Consolidated Features—~WNU Service | WEEKLY NEWS LaBINE POLITICS: G. O. P. Shift As recently as one year ago poli- ticians feared such highly success- Gallup poll might make party nom- inating conventions needless. Ex- ample: New York's racket-busting District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey is No. 1 popular candidate for the Republican presidential nomination next year. But popular opinion is one thing and common sense another. Astute Republicans know Tom Dewey has no administrative record, know also that he might be elected and still prove a failure, thus destroying the party's chances in 1944. ington, where political schemes are hatched, the G. O. P. now seems H. STYLES BRIDGES No 'H' in campaign literature. but another Michig ator Arthur H. soning Mos servative cians fa: nd most G. O. P. editorial suppor alls in his tion. What such an product, Sen- ienberg. Rea- nol $3. direc- seers have ered is that 19368 found Gallup polis, Fortune polls and I other samplings less fallible than U. S. editorial } public rejected to cratic President. But since 1936 public has followed a inspired trend to conservatism which probably makes today's edi- torial opinion less much n, whicl opinion, elect a erring. 1939's first four months was only 73 per cent of 1029, the farmer's es- { sential purchases cost substantially | less. In the past 10 years mort- | gage debt has dropped 26 per cent: interest charges, 35 per cent: hired | hands and expenditure for labor has | dropped; taxes in 1937 were 33 per { cent less than 1920. Result: Over- | head and operating costs are down { and a larger portion of farm in- | come is available for buying indus- | try’s products. But if this increased portion goes exclusively to mail or- { der houses and not to local mer- chants, observers wondered how permanent prosperity could reach the rural U. S. | WHITE HOUSE; | Initials Hint to uninformed newspaper | readers: Added this month to Wash- { ington’s alphabetical agencies are FWA, FLA and FSA — Federal Works, Federal Loan and Federal Security agencies. Another change: Though WPA retains its battle- | scarred initials, it must now be called Works Projects administra- | tion, not Works Progress adminis- tration. | BELGIUM: | Isolation In 1914 German troops marched to France via Belgium, tle resistance en route Reich war macl stopped on Be thanks to a fort out of proportic dom’'s si cast her an, meeting lit- s ont her EOL her ill an- new ™ 2enl ovis . ” The Belgian stan swer in Brussels’ { niere Het If Germany respects Belgium dependence in a general war, al paper, ning both G. votes is his ord harmoniously w ener ous fight project by 22 Republican and 23 senators. Jetter than elise, observers he anti-Roos ¢ wratic votes. Other G. O. P. boomiets: Bridges. In 1936 New Hampshire's ex-governor and present senator, H. Styles Bridges, missed the vice pres- idential nomination with Alfred M. Landon simply because strategists thought a Landon-Bridges combina- tion sounded too much like “London Bridge is falling down." This month thousands of booklets cap- tioned: “For President in 1940-- middle-of-the-road and a 23 Democrat- ed in his behalf by a New Hamp- shire organization. Noticeably ab- sent from campaign literature is the first initial H., a concession to diplo- Martin. House Minority Leader most popular congressman last win- newspaper correspondents and has now become vice presiden- tial possibility. Since he would rath. Martin is busily fighting off boosters like Illinois’ Rep. Leo E. Allen, who predicts that the man who managed Alf Landon's nomination fight at the friends awaiting him at next year's gathering. AGRICULTURE: Good or Bad? Until Judgment day men will probably use the year 1020 as a basis for comparing economic condi- tions. This year, 10 summers after the stock market reached its peak, a decade's experience led Standard Statistics company to probe the U. 8S. farmer's status. General conclu- sion is that it almost parallels 1020's, though conditions themselves differ as night from day. Today's ‘‘pros- perity’’ has a different basis. Retail sales, always a good index, seem to be up. But biggest increases are shown not by independent local merchants but by mail order houses, which may indicate no return of prosperity but simply a swing to mail order buying. Less important, but significant in the mail order in- crease, is decentralization of in- dustry. Offsetting a possibly dull picture is a drastic shift in farm expendi- tures. - Though. cash Jjncome for KING LEOPOLD He prefers to be friendless, foeless. a be well, although France's line of defense would be shortened by 155 miles. But if Germany again pene- trated Belgium, France would pos- sibly evade a German attack on its northern frontier and might not aid Belgium as immediately as it did in 1914. If past experience is any indi- cation, France might even squeeze out of a war via the time-tested ap- peasement route Meanwhile the Belgians have good reason to rush their fortifications. Knowing a German drive would hold France as its ultimate goal, shrewd King Leopold also knows the Reich might avoid a conflict with him if there is a good chance it would de- lay the attack on France. FORECAST CITATION — Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, who stood pat on the U. 8. position during Japan's re- cent drive against Occidentals in China, is expected to be given the distinguished service medal by Congress. UP—Increased world consump. tion of U. 8. cotton is expected by the agriculture department on basis of current sales. For the year ending August 1, consump- tion is estimated at 11,250,000 bales compared with 10,900,000 bales last year, RETURN - Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard pre- dicts a return to England this fall of the duke and duchess of Windsor, OIL--T. G. Delbridge of Phila- delphia, president of the Ameri- can society for testing materi- als, estimates the U. 8. has am- ple petroleum supplies for 150 years, HALL, PA. INTERNATIONAL: Armaments What constitutes absolute ‘‘neu- trality’”’ in wartime has never made itself quite clear, Superficial neu- trality under the U. 8. law bans sale of arms and munitions—*lethal weapons''—yet under the amend- ment of Ohio's Rep. John M. Vorys such indispensable war-making equipment as trucks and commer- cial airplanes may be sent abroad. Early July, when the neutrality bill was making its way through con- gress, found the agriculture depart- ment proposing government subsi- dized export of cotton in a program whose chief benefactors would be aggressive Germany and Japan, both of whom need cotton to stuff into their ammunition. But U, 8. participation in dictator rearmament is only part of the pic- ture, Though France has just banned shipment of scrap iron to Germany, though Britain's new min. istry of supply will have the right to ban such shipments, profit-con- eo SCRAP IRON SHRAPNEL British steel, British deaths? scious democracies and dictator- 8 have no moral compunction about such things: scrap iron other material of M abroad to the highest domestic rearmam t be kept at h ast month Britair PY ee Ng We 4 land otential enemies he same countries 344 tons, which would make § or hd 775. 668 8 64.57 68.75 Manganese Jre (toms) R .. 173853 61.3 1s we 52 Ore (tons) 2.711 3,593 Greece BEXS aia Canada . oe 13.250 13.368 Most logical deduction is that the next World war may find British, French, Canadian, Belgian—and possibly U. 8S -troops dying of wounds inflicted by arms made of metal from their homelands. CONGRESS: Going Up In 1878 an economy-bent Forty- fourth congress appropriated $201,.- 220,000. In 1909 the government's expenditures first topped the billion. dollar mark; 1018's war crisis brought it to 18 billion; 1919 made it 27 billion. ' Never since then have U. 8. expenditures dropped much below the four-billion matk and last year came a peacetime record of 11 billion. By mid-July, with most appropriating (but little else) out of the road, the Seventy-sixth congress had managed to set a new record of about $13,110,000,000. Beyond its control were such costs as mounting old age pension reserve and the railroad retirement plan. Cropping up from the past, too, was an item of $3,624,812,065 for interest on the $40,000,000,000 national debt. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were held responsible for almost two billion of it, but not even Presi- dent Roosevelt would acknowledge the $338,000,000 which an election- conscious senate tacked to the agri- culture department's appropriation bill for parity payments and dis- posal of surplus commodities, Most significant drop: Relief. For the 1039-40 fiscal year the U. S, will spend $1,755,600,000, against $2,015.- 605,000 last year. Item by item ex- penditures, with little more to rome. $1,668,218 340 Independent agencies ...... 1.008 218-24 172,679,765 1,700.615,054 Interior SEEM EREA EARNERS Treasury t War (military) War (supplemental) War (engineering projects e106.) ...iiivnnnns Navy SREB T RRR RA ERR State, justice, commerce .. Dr ona, SEEN EE RN. frst deficiency Second Reliet {supplemental for Ee Relief (for 1940) ...oonnnsve RRR Enn semEnne bt J Henna - g8 J323W3E 23 Frets bRERNREY Chana ERaEr FEE AERRRES ADVENTUROUS AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson Morgan the Raider EN. JOHN H. MORGAN had the distinction of leading Confed- troops fo north during the Civil war. about 1,500 men crossed the Cum- berland and started north. After several skirmishes with Union troops, he reached the Ohio river on July 7, captured two steam- boats, drove off 300 Federal militia and two Federal gunboats, and crossed into Indiana. 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Strange Facts Regional Moods Ears to Hear With Who Is Perfect? abandoned, because his superic n had a false idea that the cessfully Since he wanted the situation ex- plained personally to the mission boar at territory colonized mounted his horse on October 3, with Asa Love- that did not end 1849 and 1842, and, started a ride until spring of the following year. uth by fs # - } hae we 0 an i NOS together 0V., ' yr ) ihey h ad to go ms a round- i © oh Sout} hey then followed the Santa Fe trail to Bent's Fort on the Arkansas. Several times they lost their way and barely escaped freezing to death. Whitman was nearly drowned swimming his horse across the Col- orado river. Their supply of food ran out and they had to kill their pack mules to keep from starving. Whitman eventually reached Bos. ton, March 30, and convinced the board of missions that their work was needed in Oregon. Many credit Whitman's ride with saving Oregon from abandonment to the British colonizers. * - » Lone Captor of a Town RACY RICHARDSON was a tions 30 years ago. It wasn't long until he wiped out whole battalions He soon progressed to stomach of Pancho Villa, famous Mexican bad man, and made him apologize publicly. Young Richardson fought in six But gua, capital of Nicaragua, was his most spectacular feat. After the defeat of the loyalists at Granada during the Nicaraguan rev- olution, Richardson rode far ahead of his column to get away from the dust. Unknowingly, he reached the outskirts of Managua and was seized by federal soldiers who sur- prised him, No machine gun could get him out of this—nothing but just plain bluff was even worth considering. “1 am a messenger from the commander of the revolution to your command. ing general,” he said quickly, “Take me to him." When he arrived, he said, “We outnumber you ten to one and have artillery and machine guns. 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