Glacier County chief., 1939-04-07

EoenlSn naV0r ABOUT the way
Undersecretary of State Summer
Welles denounces Germany in the
Our Welles No Secretarv Hull.
Flop in Poll of and there is an
Best Dressers 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
best-dressed poll is a mystery. His
long, big nose is perfectly cut, too,
and not 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 46 years or SO ago.
President Roosevelt'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 understandably in histor-
ic 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 a quiet
youth, careful of my morals; I
shall have an old age full of vice
Youth in Peace So it goes with
And Quiet; Now Walter Bren-
In Run, and Riot nan, making
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 personable young man
Of 40, but, in "Barbary Coast"
Kentucky" and such earlier
films as "Smilin' Guns" and
1.-THE 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,
homespun old codger given to
Offhand, David Harum apho-
risms. I have heard of similar
Occupational trends in Holly
wood. He says he is growing
old happily.
He first upped himself as an old
ster 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; then crashed the films.
:" HEN this writer was doing a
w short turn helping build the
Panama canal, he fell in with a
Jamaica Negro water boy, a sort of
r.yu Gunga Din of a
Jamaica Boys so swampers,
Idea Of Canal who was wor-
ried about the
canal being too narrow. In the
quaint lingo of the British-taueht
island Negroes, he used to say:
Eyes bahs, ships grow hugely
in coming years and If some is
fighting ship it must 60 swiftly
and not fear other passing great
ship. Axing parding sir, we
Jamaica boys say canal need
great enlarging."
Frank J. Taylor, president of the
american Merchant marine, returns
rom the canal to New York with
he same idea. He says congress
should spend $500, OOO, 900 to widen
he canal for both commercial and
rational defense reasons.
He was an orphan lad in a
Manhattan slum, at work at IL
as an apprentice at Robbins dry
dock in the Red Hook section
Of Brooklyn. He rose in politics.
in the state assembly for IL
terms, sheriff, commissioner Of
records, welfare commissioner
and comptroller Of New York
City.
Retiring from the last office in
1887, he went to Florida. hut the
steamship owners tracked him down
and burdened him with this $S5.000
Job.
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