The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-23
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS .
WEEK
By LEMUEL r. PARTON

NEW YORK.-Prevailing fashions
~ in iron men make US proud Of
our own model. We cite big, smil-
ing, durable Gabby Hartnett, bat
Gabby 10 Our period Of IS
DUN Model of years, with a
An Iron Man high OF 1854.
dropping only
three pop flies in all that time and
still pegging the ball to second with
no letdown in machine-gun speed
and precision. Phil Wrigley, owner
of the Chicago Cubs, ups him SIS, 200
in $27,500 player-manager con-
tract, for his eighteenth season with
the Cubs.
He's growing gray over the
ears, but this department Is
ready to lay bet that he'll still
be in his catcher's armor after
the overseas iron men have been
sent to the showers, even If they
are batting 1000 at this moment.
He's a marvellous handler Of
pitchers, with a laugh that eases
tension and keys down nerves.
At Woonsocket, l.. l., where he
grew up, he was Charles Leo, a
name long since lost. It was in
1922 that he signed for what looks
like lifetime stretch, as rookie
catcher for the Cubs.
nR. OLIVER CROMWELL CAR
- MICHAEL lives up to his name.
At the conference of southern BUSH
ness leaders at Atlanta, the chancel-
-, lor of Vanderbilt
Dr.. Carmichael university cries
Cries DoWn Yen down the yen
For Security tor security as
stagnation and defeat" With grim
Cromwellian tenacity, he has been
showing this home for years. DR..
Carmichael says security is fun
damentally at war with sound eco
nomics.
He is native of Goodwater, Ala,
a Rhodes scholar from the Univer-
sity Of Alabama.
A HARD-BOILED, bantam-weight
"A British newspaper man was as
signed to a coloneps staff in the
World war. The colonel was con-
-. temptuous. He
Warns England tossed the new
Clean Sweeping conner a hand
Is Vital Need book on Syria.
said, land study it. You might be
able to digest it in six months"
"Perhaps can," said the scrivener
sIt took me only three months IT,
write it,"
That was gamey little Leopold
8. Amery, one-time ace reporter
for the London Times, later q
cabinet member, now putting
his steel spurs to Mr.. Chamber
lain's "appeasement," the re-
ciprocal trade treaty and all
deals with the dictators. He
says, "You might as well try
to please tortoise by stroking
its back"
In parliament, he has been for
many years the leader of the die
hard conservatives. He is against
any social FILINGS or trimmings
whatsoever, and, having been, like
Kipling, a reporter in India, is
for the old empire formula without
any notifications.
The son of a poor civil servant in
India, he scrambled through Oxford
by snagging every scholarship in
sight. He went to parliament and
in 1922 became secretary of the adj
miralty. Later, as colonial secre-
tary, he swarmed all over the en-
pire, making fluent orations in Syri-
an, Arabic, Turkish, French, Ital-
ian and German. In Cambridge he
had COMPOUNDED his elders by his
gift of tongues.
He is a bitter-ender who says
Der Fuehrer's big horses aren't
going to rum over him. He has
been a prophet Of doom and has
warned England against meet
ing a crisis by sweeping the dust
under the rug.
GENERAL months ago, the Nazis
~ expelled George Grosz from the
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