Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-10-17
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL E. PARTON

~ AEW0V&4 =. FANuON
tconsoasda ~ Fsstlres-WlrU sssvtesJ
NEW York; has been only in
~ the last year or two that this
country began to realize that the
Germans had done a vast amount
6iueprinfins Ways al and 'e orsani.
And Means Of the zation work,
Dictaeors His job over many
Dreparing for their world aRgres-
aDn. Devising ways and means to
meet it on many fronts, military and
POLITICAL. our government belatedly
discovers DR.. Calvin Bryce Hoover,
dean Of Duke university. who was
away out in front in studying dicta-
torships, trying to understand them
and find out what to do about them.
DR.. Hoover is an important men,
Der of Col. William J. ("Wild Bill')
Donovan's new diplomatic brain
trust, which recruits men Of spe-
cialized knowledge who have dis
closed a timely awareness Of the
more or less declared war against
civilization.
Colonel Donovan's title Of CO.
ordinat0r Of Information does
not reveal the exciting charac-
ter Of his bureau which Is in
reality = somewhat mysterioss
theological and political Scot
land Yard, studying the origins
AID teehniques a Naxi power,
evolving plans 70 meet Il In its
undef-sarfaee peaetration every
whore In the world, recruiting
against The dictators some Of the
sane Psychological forces which
tbey employed.
So tar as the public record shows,
d.. Hoover scored a clean beat on
cur lavishly stated state depart
nent in trying to understand dicta-
0rships and to make an accurate
appraisal Of their intentions and pos
dble outreach. It was in 1881 that
he wrote 1.-THE Economic Life of
Soviet Russia; in 1888, Germany
Enters the Third Reich; and in
1887, "Dictators and Democracies."
Through the pre-war years of plan
etary complacency, he was writing,
IN his books and articles, an out
line Of Adolf Hitler as genius and
fanatic
These studies were not phillipics
against Naziism. They were search
ing and studious inquiries into the
origins and inducements of dictator
ships. They now provide invaluable
analyses of the Nazi cultural, eco
nomic, military formula for world
conquest.
DR.. Hoover, born In Berwick,
m, in 1857, was conditioned to
patient, methodieal work by
working On farms and railroads
in his youth. He attended Mon
meuth college and received his
Ph.D. degree at Wisconsin uni
versity in 1s2s. When he was an
undergraduate at the former
school, he jsined the Natioaal
Gaard and served two years
In France In tie World war, tax
ing part in two battles. He
joined the Duke university faeul-
II in lses, becoming = FUN pro-
fessor u economies In 1850.
In the above clinical studies, DR..
Hoover does not find relationships
blue-printed in any patterns of So
cietal evolution. They can be Tended
OF if we're up and at 'em" without
losing too much time-but, above
all, they must first be understood.
CALEB S. BRAGG, manufacturer
~ of the new plastics-and-mahog-
any airplane, which meets success
full tests at Roosevelt field, was the
Once Cut Records If oa ear1y-d loot
In Airplanes, Nou auto racing
Cuts Cost of EN- and avia-
ton. A hand
some chap, rich, venturesome and a
Yale man. In 1912, he won the Fourth
International Grand Prix automo-
bile race, and was awarded the Van
derbilt cup, by covering 400 miles at
69.3 miles per hour. In that day, a
mile minute had been put down as
the limit of safety for automobiles.
Newspapers threw 4 fit over
Mr.. Bragg passing this dead
linz AID living to tell the tale.
Tine afvvefs On. In 1918 he left
ths eeantry bfeathless by flying
fFe0 Daytsa 70 Washingtoa, -
naos, b 3 hssfs and - minutes.
h 1140 he set . new altitude
rseofa q $500 feet for sea-
He vas born in Cincinnati in 1885.
the son Of . manufacturer and bust
nesssnan. and was graduated from
Yale IN 1863
He y . former head Of the Early
birds, IN organization Of aviators
WHO AeW before 1915. At one time he
beat Barney OldAed in 4 race IN
Calhbenia. He had the crowds
wsodpin0 toe him whenever b. en-
tered = race. In 1870 be helped
Ananee the Glenn L. Martin COM
pmy -. moved into leas exciting
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