Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

consolidated Features-WNU Service.)
NEW YORK. - Most airplane
Y makers who expressed an opin-
ion about Henry Ford's offer to
make 1000 planes a day were doubt
Industry Can Do i Fo adGue ability Mt,
Anything in Our to deliver.
Defense Effort Young ana
Sherman M. Fairchild, president of
the Fairchild Engine and Airplane
corporation, thought anything
would be possible" provided suf-
fcient money, materials and person
mel were available. He was re-
assuring as to the industry's capaci-
ties in tooling, plants and other re-
quirements for quick shift to mass
production.
Mr.. Fairchild is, himself, re-
assuring in exemplifying the
tradition of Yankee inventive
ness. His father, the late
George Winthrop Fairchild, once
chairman of the International
Business Machines corporation,
was the inventor of the dial tele-
phone, the computing machine
and finally the adding machine,
to keep track of his mounting
millions-abOut 10 of which went
to his son. He had begun his
business career at So a week.
"Anything is possible" seems to
have been a sort of family
slogan.
AS youth, Sherman M. Fairchild
was mainly interested in cameras.
His father had tapped him for
junior executive of his company.
When the young man stuck to
cameras, this interest later shading
into airplanes, his family was indul-
gent. They thought the boy was
just having a "wanderjahr' and
would round up at desk when the
time came. But the camera obses-
sion wasn't just monkey business.
At 81, he had invented an unique
fashlight camera and several years
later brought through a radial aerial
camera, organized the Fairchild
Aerial Surveys and caught attention
with a trail-blazing aerial survey Of
New York. This led to plane-build-
ing. In 1927, he corralled several
companies, set Igor Sigorsky build
ing planes and turned out the first
cabin monoplane in the United
States.
ONCE chivalry is not inseparable
- from patriotism, this writer
asked Norman H. Davis. chairman
of the American Red Cross, to send
Red Cross Chief 10 =, u rh' $ = co., g u,
Lauds Response paragraph
Giuen to Appeal abb out the
work of the
Red Cross in it's greatest endeavor.
He responded as follows:
"Anyone attempting to bring ma
terial assistance to the millions of
homeless and miserable war refu-
gees is inevitably seized with a
sense of futility. There. is sd much
that needs doing Immediately, and
there are so many obstacles to over
come that the burden of responsible
ity becomes almost overwhelming.
:: "These moods Of 'futility 1 can
dispel by concentrating my
thoughts on the splendid sup
port received by the. American
Red Cross from all over the
country. When l think of the
100000 volunteers sewing. band
ages and knitting garments, or
Of the millions of Americans in
every walk Of life who are con-
tributing to the Red Cross war
relief fund, my spirits are i'm
mediately buoyed. Pride in the
generous and patriotic response
of the public gives each Red
Cross worker new courage to
carry out his tasks.
"Thee war-relief funds are going
to work for humanity almost as fast
as they come in. Relief supplies are
being distributed, hospital supplies
are on the way and ambulances have
been ordered. Clothing and surgical
dressings are being shipped to the
stricken areas, in huge quantities.
Our activities are rapidly being
geared to greatly increased needs
as the toll of invasion continues to
mount. I have an abiding faith that
the people of this country will help
the Red Cross keep pace with it's
increasing obligations.
Mr.. Davis is Southerner by
birth, and therefore fundamen-
tally humane; as a successful
business man and financier, he
is effective, and as a European
ambassador at large under five
Presidents, he is discreet.
In the dark depths of the rear seat
of his town car, one night two years
ago, I had a talk with him about
power politics in Europe. He was,
indeed, discreet, but I gained an
impression of his shrewd awareness
of the deeper realities of the Euro
pean impasse, as now tragically re-
vealed. When, later, he was ap-
pointed chairman Of the Red Cross,
it seemed to me that our greatest
humane tradition had been fort,,-