The midland journal., 1940-01-05
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS .
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.-The Firms are CO.
~ ing ahead bravely with their
plans for this years Olympic
games, and Urho Kekkonen, minis
Olympic Flame terror. ter crowd. Gro
Still Burning ing SO, de-
In HeIsinki feats another
statesman in
the 100-meter race, coming under
the wire in 1875 seconds. His time
in a race against the same oppo-
nent Is years ago, was 1919. Recent
ly, in the Trisathlon, 10 members
of the Finnish parliament, some of
them with touch of frost over the
ears, engaged in the 100-meter
sprint, the broad jump and shot
putting events.
MIR. Kekk0nen, a leader in
Finnish politics since Finland
gained her independence in 1917,
is president of the Finnish Ath-
letic federation and fervent
advocate and exemplar of phys
ical fitness. When, in 1882, the
Swedes disqualified PaavO Nur-
mi, the Finnish distance runner,
as an amateur, the Firms
slapped boycott on the Swedes,
and, for years thereafter, there
was pickering in the Baltic, with
Mr. KAIrIynpHnvn rrrk s,~
peace advocate. In 1885, the
Firms refused to lift the boycott,
but, under the shadow of foreign
aggression, this was more or less
forgotten and the sprinting
statesman was in the lead for
Scandinavian solidarity, i'm war
and sports.
He helped suppress the Commu-
mist party in 1880, and with equal
vigor drove against the Fascists in
later years. In November of last
year, the diet sustained him in his
move to restrain the 373 Fascist
and Nazi organizations in Finland,
and their. 18 newspapers, but, a
month later, a Helsinki magistrate
sustained his totalitarian opponents.
He followed with devastating ex-
pose of their subversive activities
and had the nub of the argument
when Germany made its deal with
Red Russia, Finland's old bete noir.
The Russians are now complaining
bitterly that the Finnish sprinters,
in the cabinet and out, insist on
running in their direction. They
seem to think it isn't sporting.
T ONG before the Civil war, girls
II like Scarlett O'Hara were learn.
ing to curtsy and how to enter a
ballroom in Athens college, at
Fine Stockings, Along with
Education From news of At
Athens College ianta's !s1 grand
line and old lace comes word that
Athens college, of prunes and prisms
tradition, is putting in big hosiery
mill to be operated by the college
girls. It will employ 100 students,
at Is cents an hour.
DIR. Eugene Rudolph Naylor,
president of the college, thought
up the mill plan and gathered
{ funds for it. He says, "This is
a liberal arts college, STEPPED in
the traditions of the Old South,
and the main purpose of this
+ experiment is to give the stu
dents means to obtain a liberal
arts education"
"And," he might have added, "silk
stockings to match the education"
Cactus colleges have been get
ting their turn in the spotlight for
turning out lethal football. DR.. Nay
lor, an alumnus of several of them,
has been working small-college in
novations, of possibly greater in
verest and importance. He has been
president of Columbia college of
Milton, Ore, Woman's college of
jackson, Tenn, Logan and Athens
colleges, dean of Logan college and
professor at Wesleyan, and Emory
and Henry colleges. He is a re-
sourceful educator who thinks it's a
good idea for girls to learn how
much material and work goes into a
pair Of silk stockings.
DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S first
1 dollar-a-year man becomes pres
ident of the 81 ,000, ,00O, 1000 Associated
Gas and Electric company. He is
Chalk Up One White ford
More for Little Washington
PeJSchooIbouse lawyer, and
former gen.
eral counsel for the Federal Hous-
ing administration.
1t is a score for the little red
schoolhouse in his home town
of Whitef0rd, Md.-named after
his ancestors schoolh0use in
which two signers Of the Decla-