Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-06-21
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK

By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Consolidated Features-wNU serviceJ
NEW YORK. - Most airplane
! makers who expressed an opin-
ion about Henry Ford's offer to
make 1000 planes day were doubt
Industry Can Do Fo rSous sb; I
Anything in Our to deliver.I
Defense Effort Young and
energeti
Sherman M. Fairchild, president Of
the Fairchild Engine and Airplane
corporation, thought anything
would be possible" provided suf-
ficient 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 a 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 FairchiId, 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 s. . week.
Anything is possible" seems to
have been . 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 chamberlain" and
would round up at a desk when the
time came. But the camera obses-
sion wasn't just monkey business.
At q, he had invented an unique
flashlight camera and several years
later brought through a radial aerial
camera, organized the Fairchild
Aerial Surveys and caught attention
with trailblazing 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 u 10 =, : rhis col : u,
Lauds Response paragraphs
GiUen to Appeal about the
work of the
Red Cross in its 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 so much
that needs doing Immediately, and
there are so many obstacles to over
come that the burden of responsible
lty becomes almost overwhelming,
"These moods of futility I 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
$4,000 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.
1.-THE 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.
Dur activities are rapidly being
seared to greatly increased needs
as the toll Of invasion continues to
l have an abiding faith that
he people Of this country will help
he Red Cross keep pace with its
obligations.
Mr.. Davis Is q Southerner BY
birth, and therefore fundamen-
tally humane: n . successful
business man and flnancier, II
h elective, an ~ . European
anbassador 1t large under I've
Presidents. h q 6iserooH.