The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22
WHO'S
NEWS
This Week
Lemuel r. Parton
Consolidated eatures.--wNU Release.

Consohoateu heatures.-WNo nsieaS~.
NJ EW YORK. -Effervescent Utopi-
! y ans talk now and then OF the
day when homes will be traded in
as freely as automobiles. Cheap, de-
Big Drift Away having a re-
From Orthodox sale value ac-
Housing IL Seen cording to age
has been predicted, be snapped for
new and slicker ones as owners tire
Of them or squirt up the economic
ladder from the business coupe to
the town sedan rung. When, IL and
as this happens, happy buyers viii
do well to toast the memory OF
John B. Blandford Jr., for 1t cannot
happen without strong drift away
from present-day housing and
Blandford is the lad whose bellows
is helping that drift nowadays.
Thirty thousand war workers
move into public housing accom-
modations each month. That's
Blandford, the national housing
administrator. In the past LIZ
months 278,000 new war-housing
units have flown the green sap
ling that means finished" In
the symbolism of builders.
That's Blandford, too. And IL
plans now ON the griddle cook to
the right turn there will be thou
sands more. And the 0ld-fash-
toned house that a man bought
to raise and marry his children
in, and shelter himself In his
slippered retirement will have
tough competition.
Blandford, only As, is the gradu-
ate of Stevens Institute Of Technol-
ogy, called by President Roosevelt
man of amazing executive abili-
ty." A thick, solid amazer with
perky ears he smiles his way along
as a man should under such praise.
livery home could use DR..
II Walter H. Eddy these none too
cheerful days. 1t is luck that he is
only professor emeritus Of physio-
Finds a Bright istry at Column
Side to All This bia university.
War Rafioning UH 'ne ac;lvs
time on his hands as well as "a
kind and gentle heart-to comfort
friends and foes" War rationing
will make us all pull in our belts
but, DR.. Eddy says, we need not
worry because the health of Ameri-
cans should not suffer. Well! May
be "foes" carries the comfort far
Their than even the doctor would
have it 60. The Nazis won't be
comforted.. Not much!
A while back DIR. Eddy was
comforting a crowd only little
less needy than today's butter
meat canned-g00ds and sug-
ar-shy nation. He told confer
ence that both tea and coffee
made for vim and vig0r and
also helped as much toward
sleep as counting sheep. Both,
he said, were stimulating morn
ing drinks but at night tended
to induce sleep, when taken in
moderation. These happy con-
illusions, and his grand one
touching ON war rationing, are
not those Of a Johnny -come-late-
Iy, but of fellow whose record
in his own field almost matches
Babe Ruth's.
Now the newly-appointed chair
man of the Institute of Dietetics, DR..
Eddy was a major in the last war
and is an expert consultant to the
quartermaster general of the army
in this one.
COL. MERRIAM c. COOPER is
~ back from China, and Washing
ton correspondents are left in no
Name a Place and his adnira.
Col. Cooper KnosOs ton for his
Traffic Cop There cnle1' c nrig.
Chennault. Colonel Cooper knows
Just what he wants to say, and says
it. .Twenty-odd years ago, while the
rest Of the newspaper reporters
were wavering in front of the steam
table at lannon's restaurant in Min
neapolis his mind was always clear.
Roast beef! And good dish, too,
for IS cents.
He has eaten better, and
worse, since, and China, like
Minneapolis, is just another way
station In q succession OF
bounces which have taken him
around the world and to spare.
When he was in Abyssinia, Halle
Selassie gave him q palace and
wanted to throw hunting party
for him, but Cooper didn't have
time. Before that he few . fight
ing plane in France with the
AEF, and later headed up the
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