Glacier County chief., 1939-12-08
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON


NJ W YORK.-When we went III
Y the World war, Sen. Smith ".
Brookhart of Iowa said our c1acA
rifemen would win for US Il he weee
,u ~. allowed TO re.
Made Gun Our them. Ameri
Army Mainsfay cans Pc sa,a.
marksmen, and the rifle would b
suited to our native genius. He was
soundly patriotic and moving, - he
worked in Daniel Boone and indiviA-
ual initiative, but his plea went -
needed.
But, at that time, there was .
young fellow popping Of the con
veyor belt ducks at Coney r.
land with such accuracy that be
became . virtuoso Of rife fire,
and, in between war yearA
made the rife the mainstay a
our army firing power, just ~
Senator Br0okhart said II ought
to be. The Garand self-loading,
semi-automatic rife, tested b.
National Guardsmen At Camp
Smith, Peekskill, has for several
years been put down by mill
tary men as the worlds most
sensational achievement in light
arms. The army took il over n
1887. It is the creation Of John
C. Garand, the young toolmaker
whose earlier laboratory was .
Coney island shooting gallery.
1t weighs only nine pounds, and
fires GO shots to the minutes
shot with one trigger-pull.
Young Garand made several med
els, embodying his basic idea, and
sent one to the navy departmene
at Washington. They planted him
with the bureau of standards =
continue his experiments.
Later, they sent him to 0e
United States armory at Spring.
field, where in 1928 he brought
through the deadliest small
weapon ever made. It has been
steadily improved since then,
and, according to the most an
thoritative military judgment,
has more than trebled s0
army's firing power.
John c. Garand was born il a
French-Canadian village, 20 miles
from Montreal, and was brought q
Putnam, Conn, by his father, whea
he was seven, after the death Of his
mother. He was the seventh e Il
children.
THERE was once a hillbiIiy girl
L who went to a neighbor's cabin
to borrow a hammer. She said,
"Pappy's fixin' to build house nexi
Europe Borrows Europe. he,
Our World of are "fxin' "
Tomorrow Idea 70 ouild =
rope, forehanded about it, as above,
with the building apparently depend.
ent on a preliminary wrecking job.
Within the last few days, plans
for the grand remodeling have
gone forward, with two sets of
blueprints on each side of the
west wall. Franz Won Papen
thinks the new commonwealth Of
Europe will be devised by Ger
many, while Paul Reynaud,
French minister Of finance, and
his confreres in London, are
making other arrangements.
The wide range of planners
swings from intellectuals, such
as Julian Huxley, the British
scientist, to the man Of action,
General Wladislas Sikorski, pre-
mier Of the Polish government
which is just now camping eat
in France.
General Sikorski, the latest ma
circulate in the peace seminar, vi
sions a consolidated Europe" bu
one in which a reconstructed PolanS
will somehow be happily encysted
He is a soldier who became 4
writing, as well as a fighting
man, also, with his gift Of ready
speech, an orator and politician.
He was an effective leader Of the
war Of 1920, when the French
general, Maxine Weygand,
helped the Poles stop the Boz
sheviks, and he became premier
in 1922 when he was replaced by
Marshal Pilsudski as chief-of-
staff. He was forced out In 1928,
and in 1924 became minister q
war.
A handsome and romantic figure
of the old feudal Polish aristocracy
he took full account Of modern con
ditions as he tried desperately 4
tool his country into modern state
hood. Now, it appears. he woult
just skip it and take . chance q