The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-07
WHO'S
NEWS !.
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL r. PARTON


By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.-There is an Anthony
Edenish flavor about the way
Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles denounces Germany In the
Our Welles No Secretary or t i HUI Ii.
Flop in Poll of and there is an
Rear Dre.sers Edenish flavor
about our Mr..
Welles himself. He is tall. He is lean.
He has wee, precise mustache, and
why nobody has picked him in a
best-dressed poll is a mystery. His
long, big nose is perfectly cut, too,
and not a hair is out of place in the
thinning pompadour that reaches
back from a domed forehead.
This is not, however, to hint
that the undersecretary is any.
thing less than 100 per cent
American. He was born in New
York City as years or so ago.
President Ro0sevelt's own Gro
ton and Harvard shaped him,
and he is at home in four or
five clubs that insist ON looking
up candidates in the Doomsday
book Of the Revolution of '76.
His church, naturally, is the
Episcopal church, and his home
now is UNDERSTANDABLE in histor-
fc Maryland, where two sons
are no doubt also preparing for
Groton.
The diplomatic gauntlet that he
ran to reach his present post ex-
tends back to 1915 and Tokyo. Be-
times he has been much in South
America. He has been first assist
ant since 1887 to Secretary Hull.
ONE Of Carl Sandburg's songs
runs: 81 have led quiet
youth, careful of my morals; I
shall have an old age full of vice
Youth in Peace So So it 9 goes with
And Quiet; NosD Walter Bren-
IN Rum and Riot nan, making
distinguished
film career playing likable old rep
rebates. Hollywood pegs him as the
successor to Will Rogers, and four
Rogers pictures are being readied
for him.
He is a reasonable young man
of 40, but, in s4sBarbary Coast"
'sKentucky," and such earlier
films as 'sSmilin' Guns, and
.sThe Lariat Kid" he came
through handsomely as a tough
old-timer, and now that's his
ticket. He likes it, and, living
these roles, becomes a sage,
h0mespun old codger given to
Offhand, David Harum apho-
fisn1s. have heard of similar
Occupational trends in Holly
wood. He says he is growing
old happily. s
II He first upped himself as an old
Eter by lying about his age to get
in the war. Gassed in France, he
lost all his teeth and got a rasp in
his voice, which also helped. He
raised pineapples in Guatemala,
made money, lost it in Los Angeles
real estate, and then crashed the
films. Born and reared in Swamp
scott, Mass, he is a master of the
quaint western and southwestern
idiom.
MAYHEM this writer was doing
W short turn helping build the
Panama canal, he fell in with
Jamaica Negro water boy, sort of
FL. Taylor Has squad Of Parai-
Jamaica Boys so swampers,
ried about the
canal being too narrow. In the
!. quaint lingo of the British-taught
island Negroes, he used to say:
y eyes bahs, ships grow hugely
In coming years and If some is
fighting ship it must go swiftly
and mot fear other passing great
ship. Axing parding sir, we
Jamaica boys say canal need
great charging" r
Frank J. Taylor, president Of the
American Merchant marine, returns
from the canal to New York with
the same idea. He says congress
should spend $500, 00O, 900 to widen
the canal for both commercial and
national defense reasons. Mr.. Tay-
1or's career is Brooklyn's favorite
''boys who made good" story-from
81 a~day to $4,000 year, which is
the possibly vulgar epitone of such
careers in this day and age.
He was an orphan lad in q !
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