The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-29
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON

BY LEMUEL r. PARTON
CONSOLIDATED Features-WNU Service.D
NJ EW YORK.-It probably isn't
safe to score the runs, hits and
put-outs Of this war too definitely,
but it looks as though the retirement
Score One for "a 60
England With M. Hertzoe
HertzogsQuitting from South
tics could well be put down as q
count for England. The former pre-
mier, stubborn hold-out against
war aid or closer alliance with Brit
ain, relinquishes his leadership and
resigns from the reunited National
list party.
He had formed this party ear
ly In the war, to unite dissident
elements after his bitter politi-
cal enemy, the durable Gen. Jan
SHUTS, had wrested the premier
ship from him on the issue of
closer adherence to the British
empire and its war aims. The
issue was fairly close and he
recruited formidable opposition.
His withdrawal appears to mako
this particular outpost Of en-
pire much safer for the British.
He would have made a good
breathitt county feudist, with a
quick trigger-finger and long men,
DRY. He fought like one, in the
hills and the veldt in the Boer war
and OF his ragged mustache and
hardscrabble white beard an inter-
viewer once said: His whiskers
oristled when I mentioned Eng
land"
Calling himself "loose asso-
ciationist," he has sought to
make the tie with Britain looser
and looser. He has been no
apologist for Chancellor Hitler,
but most of his views and atti-
tudes have been those of q be-
lever In the authoritarian state.
He vigorously has opposed
votes, beer and property for the
blacks and has elaborated, with
great intellectual facility, q
scheme for q disciplined state,
In which the supremacy Of white
culture Is the keystone.
He is johannesburg lawyer anc
politician, brilliantly educated, the
son Of Dutch clergyman. A sterr
old pietist, with the sharpest tongue
in the commonwealth, he scolds the
burghers for their unseemly beha.
| vior
In the spring Of 1929, the cur
rent high kicking and low think
ing stirred him to an atrabilious
outbreak In which he said all
this fooiishness would be pun
ished In q few months by the
worst crash the world had ever
known. He advised all hands to
hide or bury anything they
might have. Similar predictions
have given him somewhat the
role Of a prophet in South AZ
RIGA. "Old jeremiah was right"
they are apt to say.
With the equally tough and belli
cose old General SHUTS he has en-
gagged in much bare-handed politi
cal milling for many years, although
they once were allies. General Kert
zog became premier in 1888 ant
General SHUTS never ceased hrinI
until his victory last fall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, tn,
more internationally than nation
ally famous architect, sees the doom
Of the big city and the main hope fol
Architect Wright aapp Ss usys !
Sees Doom of de-centralizec
Our Big Cities cosmos. Hav
ing heard hin
lecture several times, I cannot hell
thinking there is much wistful think
ing in his prophecy.
Trapped in any big city, Mr.
Wright should soon be a hospita
case. Ever since he came from tn,
prairie town of Richland Centre
Wis, he has had a feud with tn,
big towns. He now finds a new all,
in the imminence of bombing.
One Of the worlds great in
DOvatOrs, II not rebels, In archi-
lecture, he has won far more
acclaim In other countries than
his own. His greatest achieve
ment was the Imperial hotel, In
Tokyo. His unique blend Of aes-
thetics and utility, passionateIy
expOunded in a wide philOsOphi-
cal context has stirred contrO-
versy, but always seized atten-
ton. In person, the unrelenting
foe Of the city Is a big-tOwn cit
izen, custOm-made from tip TO
toe, easy and assured, but not
urbane, because he's too dis
pleased with cities.
! II FADING the u. S. government
4 new flying wedge against MAJ
propaganda in Latin-American coun
tries is the genial James w. Young
chief Of the bureau Of foreign AMI
domestic commerce. Mr.. Young il
chairman of the newly formed com
mittee on communications, with 50,