Evening star., 1942-07-05

q WHEN Walt Disney little boy and wanted TOW
w wagon he sat down and drew piece of paper.
At eight he earning the money for his haircuts
by drawing pictures for the barber At l6 he tried 60 war
He looked too young for his as he does today
but his mother helped him by bbg about his age and he
succeeded in getting to France driver of Red Cross
abulances He drew pictures all them fantastic
cartoons which convinced the French that Americans were
crazy.
Disney may have smugged himself into the last war; but he
walked into this red carpet The day after Pearl Har
Dor the Navy had Walt on the phone.
Could he make number of films for training Navy per-
sonnel on alplane and warship identification?
He could.
When could he start?
As as he hung up
Disney has made films and is making more No regular
Disney characters involved in these but they'll do their
part for the US in other For instance 18 South Amer
short subjects promote that goodneghbor feeling have
been projected Disney took trip through South America
with his key artists to collect the material -Four of these have
been completed and while they will not be released to regular
theaters until late fall it be whispered that Donald Duck
is in one of them and Gooy is in another.
Donald Duck plays part series of defense films for the
Canadian government The Big Bad Wolf has been enlisted
Also the most famous of all ham actors the Three Little Pigs
New Disney characters will march through series of shorts
for the Agricultural Department food drive The Disney artists
will play rubber and soy beans among other things
Scientists have been rather SNUG about their ability raise
crops without soil - they call it hydroponcs but Disney
promises real revolution agricultural methods for he
will do it with nothing but ink.
In addition all this there tremendous program of
recruiting films for the United States Merchant Marine,
endease propaganda films pubcze American supplies
of war materials to Allies and enormous
program of training films to teach celestial navi- Il
CATION, meteorology and host of other technical
subjects assigned exclusively to the Disney
studio "on the basis of special equipment nowhere
else in USE R
In short Art is not something precious" to aMl
Disney - it is dynamic force In fact he doesn't "
feel at with the word - he thinks Art with ~
big sounds too pompous and selfconscious.
When the English novelist Aldous Huxley praised -
the philosophy in the Mickey Mouse cartoons
and asked how he arrived at these underlying -
subteties, Walt said ''Oh, make pictures for
entertainment and then the professors tell what mean
The professors did just that in 1888 when Harvard Yale
and the University of Southern California all gave Disney
honorary degrees.
The man who made better mouse was born Chicago in
1901 He has three brothers and sister His oldest brother
Roy his business another brother handles personnel
and insurance at the studio and the remaining brother is
mail carrier When asked why said brother mail carrier,
Walt answered, "Why not?"- profound reply. Waits
mother American and his father named Elias
Wats middle name), hCanadan contractor who
believed boys should be brought up the hard way So Walt
started at nine years carrying newspapers fouoclockn-
emornng route and aferschoo This Kansas
City, where he finished up his grammar school education and