Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-06-11

the poison ivy garland as the Meth
erlands Quisling. There has been
Dutch fQuisling' t t;tio coih \
Is Pint FLASK tween Mus
OF Pure Poison seLt' lnillilli-
and Ross Won Tonningen, protege
of Goering, for the above supreme
dishonor. Late dispatches indicate
that Mussert has definitely Won
Clinical historians will, as they
examine Mussert's career, find
classical pattern of the origins and
inducements of Quislingisnn. The
scrubby little boy of the lovely vii
lage of Werkendan in south Holland
was short-ender in everything he
tried, and in addition to that had
gift for getting himself disliked by
his schoolmates. Furthermore, he
suffered from delusion that he was
a reincarnation of his great-grand-
father Reus Mussert Reus was
giant who smacked everybody down
for miles around and became a sort
of Paul Bunyan in the Low Coun-
tries. Little Anton made many mis-
calculations in trying to be like
Reus. He became like Horace's
'even-tempered man''-alWays mad.
His aunt paid for his education
in civil engineering at the Univer-
sity of Delft. His wife wanted to be
grand lady, perhaps co-ruler with
him of subjugated Holland, and
she and the aunt were always fan
ming up his frustrated power mania.
He did we'll enough in the univer-
sity but when he finished they filed
him away in grubby little civil
service job.
A little dash of printers ink
ianced the boil of his suppressed
hatreds, and headed him toward
: his great betrayal. In 1929, there
was row on between Holland
and Belgium over a joint canal
project, and, tearing loose with
some wild invective, he hit the
headlines. He formed a new
political party, patterned on
MussOlini and Fascism, and be-
gan recruiting the less literate
section of the country in public
yelling matches against "deca-
dent parliamentarianism" and
"capitalistic plutocracy." Hitler
sent him an "atta boy" mes
sage and there was the begin
ming of beautiful friendship.
His domineering aunt made him
divorce his wife and marry her.
Then she caught him philandering
with his pretty stenographer and
jerked him out of the management
of the new party. Holland was vast
ly amused by the tough-talking little
dictator being owned and operated
by his wife, but underestimated his
gifts as a germ-carrier-until he
helped let the Nazis in.
John MASEFIELD'S cargoes of
- "pigiron and old tin trays" are
apt to take wings before this war
is over. A friend of this writer, a
When We Reap, a aircgaft i,, st.
We Find Another told us about
Has Done Sowing g g1; az ar ar
coming through soon, built quickly
and stoutly of plywood, capable of
long flights with a heavy load, and
with production costs so low in man.
power and materials that quantity
production will be swift and easy.
1t wouldn't take many of them to do
the work of fair-sized ship, said
my friend, taking into account their
greater speed. He is Lit up with
the idea that here is the answer to
the submarine problem, and he says
it is, right now, a lot more than a
blueprint.
Back in March, 1882, Walter
H. Beech resigned as vice presi-
dent of the Curtiss-Wright cor
poration, to design and build
commercial planes. He has had
some tough going, but his dec
ade of chance-taking in the
commercial free-for-all, has
bloss0med into whale of
plant at Wichita, Kan, making
wooden planes, trainer planes to
be sure, but right in line with
coming air argOsies of plywood
and pre-fabricated mahogany.
The side of plane is slammed
together and attached to the
fuselage in only few minutes.
The plant business, in dollar ac-
counting, has risen 1000 per
cent in the last IL months. All
fears of financial forced land
ing are past.
Mr.. Beech has never hesitated 20
take a sharp turn off the main road.
He resigned from the army air
corps, in 1921, eager to try out some
new ideas, and organized the Swal-
low Aeroplane company. Then came
his Travel Air Manufacturing COM
pany, building the famous Mystery
S" in which Capt. Frank Hawks
outfew the crack army ships. His
Beech Aircraft corporation turned
out the plane which won the Mac
fadden Trophy race from st. Louis
to Miami last January. He is al
ways experimenting, with the sky as
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